[Dave]

EDN, November 20; Carrie Yu, DigiTimes.com [Monday 20 November 2006]

MediaTek and Sunext Technology, a subsidiary of Sunplus Technology, will launch chips for Blu-ray drives next year, earlier than their scheduled launch of chips for HD-DVD drives, according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN).

MediaTek has sent samples of chips for Blu-ray and HD-DVD drives to customers, including Lite-On IT, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics (LGE), while Sunext will launch Blu-ray drive chips first and chips supporting both Blu-ray and HD-DVD drives later, the paper reported.

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20061120PB206.html