BenQ will become the first Taiwan company to deliver 16x DVD burners this week, according to the company which expects to ship 40,000-50,000 16x DVD burners this month, accounting for 30% of its optical disc drive sales. 16x DVD burners will start moving toward the DVD drive mainstream beginning next month, replacing 8x models, the company indicated.
Although the initial 16x DVD burners will be in the +RW format, BenQ will develop advanced models to support Dual (both +RW and -RW) and DL (single-sided double-layer disc) standards, the company noted.
BenQ has received orders for loaders, a component of optical disc drives, from Sony and reportedly recently obtained OEM orders for DVD drives from Dell. BenQ made no comment on the Dell orders but Michael Gong, general manager from Lite-On IT's optical disc drive business unit guessed that BenQ received OEM orders from South Korean and/or Japanese makers. Lite-On IT is BenQ's largest local competitor and currently produces optical drives for Dell.
Lite-On will begin shipments of 16x DVD burners by the end of next month and Behavior Tech Computer, another Taiwanese maker, will start deliveries late this month.
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