The Sony Playstation 3 will not release in Australia in time for Christmas this year. With reports of a shortage of the blue laser diodes that are needed for both Blu-ray and HD-DVD, Nichia, the company that makes 80% of the world’s blue laser diodes is having problems getting the yield rates up during manafacturing.
According to sources linked to from both disc manafacturers, several vendors, including Royal Philips Electronics, Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS), Sony, Matsushita Electric, Lite-On IT and BenQ, already announced BD or HD-DVD drives, only Pioneer and Plextor are currently able to maintain actual shipments. Toshiba may soon join them, with volume shipments planned to kick off in September.
Blue laser diode shortage- PS3 delay
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