M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers (Nasdaq:FLSH) announced today that Motorola (NYSE:MOT) is using
DiskOnChip Millennium as the storage solution in its Streamaster 5000 advanced
set-top box.
Motorola's recently introduced Streamaster 5000, an advanced set-top box
targeted at telecommunication carriers, serves as an in-home "gateway,"
delivering a wide range of broadband interactive services including
video-on-demand, Web browsing and online gaming.
With M-Systems' DiskOnChip Millennium flash disk, the Streamaster 5000's
software-programmable architecture offers a low-cost expandable platform for the
addition of new broadband applications and services in the home.
"Able to support multiple applications, the Streamaster 5000 converges the
computer, consumer appliances and communications markets, offering the industry
one of the first multi-functional DSL-based advanced set-top boxes with the
additional benefit of M-Systems' local data storage solution," said Chuck
Schouw, president and CEO, M-Systems.
"The selection of M-Systems' DiskOnChip by Motorola, a leading provider of
digital set-top systems, marks an important design win for the company and the
further integration of DiskOnChip into this emerging IA market."
"M-Systems' DiskOnChip provides a reliable, extremely small data storage
solution for the multiple broadband streaming applications associated with this
advanced set-top box," said Jackie Beauchamp, general manager, multimedia
systems division, Motorola.
"Similar to the unit's expandable platform, DiskOnChip is easy to integrate
and upgrade and is an optimal storage solution for advanced set-top systems like
our Streamaster 5000."
M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of
innovative data storage products, known as flash disks, which are primarily used
in embedded systems, Internet appliances and telecom/networking markets. The
company's flash disks provide the functionality of a mechanical hard drive on a
solid-state silicon chip.
Published by Israel's Business Arena on February 12,
2001.