“The difficulty is with the analog component of the channel that is not affected by the geometry shrink. As you go to smaller geometries, you pay a penalty in leakage power.”
“We also see that the next-capacity point coming up for 3.5-inch drives is 240 gigabytes per platter, and this chip enables that transition from 160-gigabytes to 240. What we also see going on is this transition from desktops to notebooks and the low-power aspects of this channel also enabled this transition as well.”
