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• CMC, Ritek 18x DVD media production limited, tight supply possible
  Monday 18 September 2006 – 03:58
  Although several leading global brands have already launched or will soon offer 18x DVD burners, CMC Magnetics and Ritek, Taiwan's top two makers of optical discs, currently produce 18x DVD+R/-R discs only in limited volumes and the supply may fall significantly short of global demand, according to industry sources.
• Lite-On IT to produce 18x DVD burners in July, 20x models in Q4
  Friday 16 June 2006 – 04:29
  Lite-On IT will begin volume production of 18x DVD burners in July and plans to start production of 20x DVD burners in the fourth quarter of this year, according to Michael Gong, the company's Optical Disc Drive Business general manager, at a press conference following the company's 2006 shareholders meeting on June 15.
• Lite-On IT said to ship 18x LightScribe DVD burners to HP in November
  Thursday 2 November 2006 – 01:22
  While Lite-On IT is expected to start shipping 18x DVD burners to Hewlett-Packard (HP) this month, the growing tension in competition between Lite-On IT, Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) and Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology (TSST) facilitated OEM prices to further drop, according to sources at Taiwan-based optical disk drive (ODD) makers.
• Samsung intros 18X SATA Lightscribe DVD burner
  Thursday 7 December 2006 – 07:42
  Samsung today announced what the company claims to be the world's first 18x DVD rewriteable drive that connects to a PC via Serial ATA (SATA).
• Lite-On IT offers 18x Lightscribe DVD burner
  Wednesday 27 September 2006 – 04:21
  Lite-On IT, the largest maker of optical disc drives in Taiwan, recently began volume production of an 18x Lightscribe DVD burner.