NEC ships samples of SoC for 8x Blu-ray recording

Yesterday, Panasonic announced that it would be bringing 6x BD-R media to Japan. Today, we've got NEC leap-frogging said announcement by trumpeting the shipment of its newest SoC (system on chip). Sure enough, samples of the SCOMBO/UM2A, a "SoC chip designed for use in Blu-ray Disc systems that support 8x recording and playback," have begun to ship out to undisclosed recipients. We're told that the chip is being aimed at the PC and AV markets (obviously), but there's no telling how long we'll have to wait until 8x Blu-ray burners (and 8x BD-R / BD-RE media, for that matter) hit the streets.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 19th 2008 8:23PM]

Sorry. No one knows what you are talking about. Who is your intended audience here? I picked up on BD burner with some excitement, but everything else?
No idea.

[GodMaster Posted Jun 20th 2008 2:43AM]

This guy thinks that because he doesn't know about SoC, that no one else has a clue either. He makes the terrible (and common) mistake of assuming everyone is as stupid as he. How sad.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 19th 2008 10:16PM]

I know what he's talking about.

But, I think the main point of the post is that there is an SoC that supports 8x Blu-ray writing.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2008 4:10AM]

8x BD must be close to maximum. What sort of RPMs are we talking here, 7-8000?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 22nd 2008 4:00PM]

Well according to Wikipedia, 8x is around 6500rpm and the maximum is 12x