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Agere Systems has begun sampling Industry’s Fastest Preamplifier chip for Enterprise and Desktop HDD markets. The chip named TrueStore PA7800 preamplifier offers exceptional speeds topping 2.5 gigabits-per-second, while consuming nearly 30 percent less power in write mode than any other chip manufactured by the company. As a drive reads data from the disk drive platter, the preamplifier amplifies these extremely small signals before they are sent to a read-channel IC for a sophisticated processing and digitization. The company expects to begin the mass production of these chips by the end of this year