Seagate, AMCC and Marvell Preview First End-to-End 3-Gigabit-Per-Second Serial ATA Technology

Seagate Technology, the world's leading Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive maker, Marvell, the leading innovator of SATA silicon technology, and AMCC, the performance leader in SATA RAID controllers, came together this week at the Intel Developer Forum to demonstrate, for the first time, End-to-End 3Gigabit per second (Gb/s) SATA technology. Conforming to the newly released 3Gb/s speed specification, the demonstration features a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 hard drive - employing the Marvell 88SA8050 3.0Gb/s SATA bridge chip - to a prototype AMCC 3Gb/s SATA host controller also incorporating the Marvell 88SA8050, demonstrating transfer rates from the host to the drive at up to 3Gb/s. Seagate, AMCC and Marvell are active leaders of the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) and helped define the 3Gb/s specification.