A New Laser Diode for Burning BD Media at 12x

While the first cheaper BD burners arrive on the market, Sanyo announced to have developed a new laser diode able to deliver the power (450 mW) required to burn Blu-ray media at 12x. Equipped with such diode, a burner would save 25 GB of on a BD-R in 10 minutes, a perfect timing for performing large volume of backup. In addition Sanyo indicates that such diode would be able to manage 4-layers BD media, not officially available yet, that would offer 100 GB of storage per disk.
According to the current physical specification, 12x burning speed on BD media should be the new frontier for a long time, as faster speed would involve rotation speed higher than 10,000 rpm, and media with better physical resistance to avoid any damage or potential danger.