Later, with his father, William Blum, he founded Pinnacle Micro, a maker of optical storage devices.
Oak, which designs semiconductors for optical storage and digital imaging, fell $5.38, to $4.52.
Unveiled at IFA, Philips' Portable Blue is an optical storage device incorporating the latest Blu-Ray laser technology.
While both CD-R and CD-RW discs fall into the category of optical storage devices, there are differences between the two.
ZANTAZ uses optical storage media known as WORM disks (for Write Once Read Many), which are mentioned in the S.E.C. rules.
Another favorite is Oak Technology, a Sunnyvale, Calif., company that makes integrated circuits for the optical storage and digital imaging markets.
Optical storage, electronic storage medium that uses low-power laser beams to record and retrieve digital (binary) data.
Their size precludes optical storage devices, but they usually include slots for solid-state flash memory cards.
At the end of the 1970s, Philips partnered with Sony to develop an optical storage medium, the compact disc, which appeared in 1982.
These manipulations hold promise for new types of light-based telecommunications, optical storage of data, and quantum computing, though the low-temperature requirements of BECs offer practical difficulties.
Optical storage devices CD-ROM (compact devices CD-ROMy memory) and DVD-ROM (digital videodiscompactersatile disc)—appeared in the mid-1980s and '90s.
