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Sanyo Invents 12X High-Speed Blu-ray Laser

Lucas123 writes "Today Sanyo said it has created a new blue laser diode with the ability to transfer data up to 12 times as fast as previous technologies. The laser, which emits a 450 milliwatt beam — about double that of previous Blu-ray Disc systems — can read and write data on discs with up to four data layers, affording Blu-ray players the ability to store 100GB on a disc, or 8 hours of high-definition video."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/06/1522223&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/06/1522223"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/06/1522223&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/65D9YT_rQiqLyWz-t25x-HoInZI/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/65D9YT_rQiqLyWz-t25x-HoInZI/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/pRAq_oUk9ao" height="1" width="1"/>