Earlier this week information supplied by an analyst implied that Seagate was having some major problems with its Solid State Drive development. Kevin D. Vassily claimed that circuit maker LSI, which designs the SoC chip for Seagate's SSDs, did not have a design ready for the SSD controller. In the end this would mean that Seagate would have to hire another circuit maker, which could delay the SSDs as late as 2011. Now Seagate has officially denied this.
Seagate told BSN the following;
“In addition to our industry leading enterprise product lines, we remain committed to solid state development, and are on track to deliver our first enterprise SSD enterprise product shipments later this calendar year. We have increased our development focus on solid state ,and will continue to invest the appropriate resources to be successful in this emerging storage market.”
In other words, the last report was all wrong and Seagate will launch the first Solid State Drives in 2009. As it stated from the very beginning, Seagate's first product series will be business products, but you can count on regular consumers trying to get a hold of them anyway.
Seagate denies SSD delays, launch in 2009 still the plan
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