Cirrus Logic Inc, Milpitas, California has come out with three new parts that is says will enable customers to develop new generations of high-performance intelligent hard disk drives: the CL-SH265 Enhanced PC XT/AT Disk Controller has a data rate of up to 24M-bits per second and buffer throughput of up to 8M-bytes per second and is aimed at the next generation of low-power laptop computers – it has a Power Down mode that cuts power consumption by about 75% when the drive is not in use; the CL-SH255 Integrated SCSI Disk Controller is aimed at developers of cost-sensitive computer systems and non-personal computer applications, such as font and document storage in laser printers; and a 32MHz version of the CL-SH350 High-Performance Synchronous/Asynchronous Integrated SCSI Disk Controller, claimed to be the fastest single-chip SCSI controller available, for high-performance 3.5 and 5.25 drives; samples of all three will be available shortly with volume in the third, at $22, $17 and $36 respectively for 1,000-up.
