NEWZ: Industry's First SAS/SATA RAID-On-Chip Device

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Broadcom (who absorbed mobo chipset maker ServerWorks a while back) brings you the industry's first SAS (+SATA) RAID-On-A-Chip solution:

• Eight 3-Gigabit-per-second SAS/SATA-II I/O controller ports.
  
• Choice of PCI Express® and PCI-X® host interfaces.
  
• Embedded MIPS® processor to run RAID firmware and XelCore™ RAID software.
  
• RAID5 hardware acceleration logic to increase performance

Details at:

http://www.broadcom.com/products/Enterprise-Small+Office/Storage+Solutions/BCM8603