PR Newswire
Mar 9, 2006 16:06 ET

LSI Logic Ships Industry's First PCI Express-to-SAS Controllers

PCI Express controller family provides new levels of I/O performance for next- generation server and storage platforms

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE:LSI) , the leading supplier of Serial Attach SCSI (SAS) storage solutions, with more than 80% of the SAS controller IC market share, today announced the industry's first production shipments of PCI Express-to-SAS controller ICs. Providing unprecedented bandwidth and scalability for server Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and external storage systems environments, the SAS ICs meet the increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands of next-generation processor and memory subsystems.

The new 4- and 8-port controller ICs use the Fusion-MPT(TM) (Message Passing Technology) architecture to speed OEM design and deployment processes to provide a time-to-market advantage that makes them ideal for use in blade servers. These new products support the scalability requirements of blade server environments and high-end server and storage subsystems.

"Our PCI Express-to-SAS controller ICs significantly reduce performance bottlenecks and increase host bus bandwidth," said Robin Wagner, director of product marketing, Storage Components Group, LSI Logic. "With the availability of PCI Express-based servers and external storage platforms in the market, LSI controller ICs can be quickly integrated with LSI SAS expanders to deliver robust and proven interoperable SAS solutions."

Both the 4-port LSISAS1064E and 8-port LSISAS1068E support 8 PCI Express lanes at 2.5Gb/s, for an aggregate bandwidth of up to 2GB/s. The controller ICs can be configured as x8, x4, and x1 PCI Express devices, with the ability to auto-negotiate among those link widths. In addition, the family supports Integrated RAID functionality for systems requiring redundancy and high- availability, but not needing a full featured RAID implementation.

About LSI Logic Corporation

LSI Logic Corporation is a leading provider of silicon-to-system solutions that are used at the core of products that create, move and store digital information. LSI offers a broad portfolio of capabilities including custom and standard product ICs, host bus and RAID adapters, storage area network solutions and software applications. LSI products enable leading technology companies in the Storage and Consumer markets to deliver some of the most advanced and well-known electronic systems in the market today. More information is available at www.lsi.com.