InPhase Technologies

InPhase Technologies is a hardware manufacturer specializing in holographic scanners and media. The company is based in Longmont, Colorado.

The company is a project of Lucent Technologies ( now merged into Alcatel-Lucent ) and was founded in December 2000 by former employees of Bell Labs. The primary objective was to be the first company to ever make holographic data storage technology ready for the market. As a result of over ten years of research, InPhase Tapestry was able to present the product, which also includes medium and drive. Starting with an already feasible storage capacity of 300 GB and a transfer rate of 20 MB / s

Despite repeated announcement of a product release, it is up to the present time the manufacturer not have been possible to bring the drive to the market. Last release date was specified as the end of 2008. First information indicates the drive will cost $ 18,000 and the associated storage medium 180 USD.

As was also known to in-phase has filed with Nintendo for a patent on a scanner for holographic disk, which suggests that researchers, together with Nintendo on an advanced memory technology, which will hold if possible in the next console generation feeder.