Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today launched its latest Fibre Channel controller chip, which embeds standard error-correction technology into silicon -- an industry first, according to the company (see Agilent Delivers FC Chips ). The company says its HPFC-5600 Tachyon DX2+ [ed. note: well that just rolls off the tongue] Fibre Channel controller is the first in the industry to include error detection code (EDC), which detects data corruption in storage subsystems. "We're solving the problem of data integrity in hardware, so it's much faster than alternative approaches," says Erik Ottem, marketing director for Agilent's storage networking division. EDC, which Agilent helped develop, is a double-bit error correction algorithm, meaning that it's much faster than single-bit algorithms.