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Lite-On IT

PLDS (Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions) is a joint venture between Royal Philips Electronics and Lite-On IT Corporation that is responsible for the sales and marketing of Lite-On branded Optical Disc Drive (ODD) business. The combination of a strong R&D focus and access to enormous production capacity makes PLDS an industry leading company. PLDS is dedicated to excellence and devote best efforts to further expand innovative quality product offerings for the PC industry and strengthen its top global position in the ODD industry.

see also:- Lite-On's SSD page.

editor's comments:- In April 2011 - a report in DIGITIMES said Lite-On will be supplying SSDs to Intel.

In June 2009 Lite-On launched a range of 1.8" and 2.5" SATA SSDs. They were reviewed in January 2010 in BenchmarkReviews.com.

Imprinting the brain of the SSD

Editor:- How did the SSD market change from:- Who cares? to You care! about the identity of SSD controllers.

click to read the case study - about the SandForce Driven program

My article - Imprinting the brain of the SSD - compares SandForce's SSD processor branding program with previous examples in chip history and analyzes key business success factors.

What's the best / cheapest - PC SSD?

Editor:- I often get emails from readers which ask the above question.

An article on StorageSearch.com - called What's the best / cheapest PC SSD? - is my attempt to create a simple FAQs page - which answers the question...

...of why I can't answer your question - and follows on to pose some probing questions which you can ask yourself. ...read the article

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