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Sony shrinks Blu-ray lasers, drives cost down
« on: January 25, 2008, 03:13:00 PM »
                       
From tech.co.uk:


Foremost in the hardware race is Sony, which has developed the world's smallest Blu-ray reader/writer module that also happens to be less costly than existing models.

Developed jointly with Nichia of Japan, the new laser unit is just 3mm thick and should help manufacturers miniaturise the hardware in their Blu-ray drives. Sony says it imagines the device ending up in 9.5mm laptop drives sometime this year.


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