One of the most important producers of optical drives for notebook, company quanta storage, plans in the second-half of this year to begin the series production of drives burner in the form factor slim blu-ray disks . Technology will be borrowed from Sony (OEM- partnership).
As reports source, the heads utilized in these devices, will be supplied by company sharp, but not Sony.Sony experiences the scarcity of blue lasers, and it will not sell to their partners until it ensures it for itself. Let us recall, besides Sharp and Sony, blue lasers produces are made also by company nichia.
Thus, Quanta will be joined in the production of optical burner drives with high speed for notebook by companies matsushita electric, Pioneer and Toshiba, already producing devices for disk Blu-ray and HD DVD. In first half of 2008 by the production of Slim- drives for Blu-ray will start Lite-On , which primary attention gives to the BD- devices for desktop pc.