Maxell is the first company in the world to launch the 12x DVD-RAM Media. Maxell’s 12x DVD-RAM media should ship on March 24th and it will cost about $8.6US per disc.

Here is a poor translation of their press release (Translated by: Google):

The Hitachi corporation (president: The Akai period man), conform to new standard DVD-RAM Version 2.2/12x-SPEED DVD-RAM Revision 5.0 standard the DVD-RAM RAM2 for the data of 6 - 12 time stenography record correspondences which From March 24th for the first time * we sell the disk, in the world. individual new high-speed BCM (Bismuth Coupling Material: The bismuth coupling material) the phase change record membrane was adopted, worldwide most speed * 12 time stenography record was actualized as a transfer type DVD disk. RAM2 It is enabled with high-speed correspondence DVD-RAM drive of 6 time speeds or more which have inscription.

Source: Maxell.co.jp