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Taipei,
Sunday, November 22, 2009
08:28 (GMT+8)
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Toshiba increases market share on Fujitsu hard drive takeover Newswatch - Oct 22, 16:31 Toshiba is estimated to have grabbed a 13.2% share of the global hard disk drive (HDD) market following its takeover of Fujitsu's hard drive operations, according to industry sources. Read more |
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HDD supply to remain tight until end of 2009, says Western Digital Taiwan Sep 18, 12:03 The global supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) for PC ODM makers has been tight due to rebounding demand in emerging markets in May-June 2009 and then in the US and Europe in July-August, and the shortage will not ease until the end of 2009, according country manager Andy Kuo for Western Digital Taiwan. Read more |
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Samsung and Toshiba push 2.5-inch hard drives to 640GB Sep 10, 17:06 Samsung Electronics has strengthened its lineup of 2.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs), following a similar move by Toshiba. Both companies now offer models featuring capacity up to 640GB, the largest so far in 2.5-inch mobile hard drives. Read more |
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Samsung launches new 250GB 1.8-inch HDD Jul 9, 16:18 Strengthening its line up of portable 1.8-inch hard drives for external storage markets, Samsung Electronics has announced its 250GB 1.8-inch hard disk drive, the Spinpoint N3U, which incorporates a native USB controller on its printed circuit board. The Spinpoint N3U stores up to 125GBs per platter for a total 250GB data storage capacity. Read more |
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Short supply of notebook HDDs may continue in 3Q09 Jul 3, 14:38 The tight supply of notebook hard drives is expected to continue throughout the third quarter, according to IC distributor GMI Technology and Weikeng Industrial, sales agents for Toshiba, Hitachi and Western Digital (WD). Read more |
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SSD electricity savings could power an entire country, says iSuppli May 7, 10:15 The use of solid-state drives (SSDs) could allow the world's data centers to reduce their cumulative electricity consumption by 166,643 megawatt hours (MWH) from 2008 to 2013, according to iSuppli. This amounts to slightly more than the total electricity generation of the African nation of Gambia for the entire year of 2006. Read more |
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SSD-based 8.9-inch netbooks seeing sharp price drops Feb 23, 17:01 Netbook vendors are dropping prices of their 8.9-inch netbooks models to clear inventory, and solid state drive-based (SSD-based) models are seeing the sharpest drops, according to sources at channel vendors. Read more |
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NAND flash recovery to boost SSD demand in 2H09, say memory module makers Jan 23, 16:00 The penetration of solid state drives (SSD) will start to pick up in the second half of 2009, when supply and demand in the overall NAND flash market returns to balance, according to memory module makers, adding that the current economic crisis and its impact on consumer confidence has pushed back the replacement cycle of hard drives. Read more |
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Toshiba to launch new portable 500GB external 2.5-inch HDD in February Jan 8, 14:45 Toshiba will launch its new portable 500GB external 2.5-inch hard disk drive (HDD), the R500E03D, in its main markets around the world in February 2009, according to Toshiba's manufacturing subsidiary Toshiba Digital Media Network Taiwan. Read more |
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Taiwan market: Seagate to launch 3.5-inch HDD Barracuda 7200.12 Jan 7, 15:30 Seagate Technology on January 7 unveiled Barracuda 7200.12, its 3.5-inch 7,200rpm hard disk drive (HDD) with a storage capacity of 500GB a platter, for launch in the Taiwan market soon, according to the company's local PR agent. Read more |
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HDD vendors to offer low-cost 2.5-inch HDDs for netbooks in 2009, say Taiwan makers Dec 16, 16:29 Seagate Technology, Western Digital and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, in response to the calls for cost reductions from PC vendors, are developing low-cost 2.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs) for use in netbooks and other low-cost PCs. The HDDs are targeted to be 40-50% less expensive than existing 2.5-inch entry-level HDD models. Availability could start as early as the second half of 2009, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Read more |
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4Q HDD shipments to be flat or down, says iSuppli Dec 3, 10:04 With global demand for PCs and other electronic products weakening, iSuppli is predicting that global shipments of hard disk drives (HDDs) used in these systems will be flat or even decline in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared to the previous quarter. Read more |
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Enterprise HDDs shifting from 3.5 inches to 2.5 inches in mainstream size, says Western Digital Nov 24, 16:36 The mainstream size of enterprise-grade hard disk drives (HDDs) is developing from 3.5 inches currently toward 2.5 inches because a 10,000rpm 2.5-inch HDD consumes 35% less power than a 3.5-inch one, according to Paul Martin, Western Digital (WD) senior director for Worldwide Channel Marketing and Enterprise. Read more |
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Toshiba to offer new 1.8-inch HDDs for use in notebooks in December Sep 30, 16:39 Toshiba's subsidiary Toshiba Digital Media Network (Toshiba DMN) will begin shipments of its new 1.8-inch MKxx29GSG series HDDs to notebook makers and notebook peripheral distributors in December 2008, according to Toshiba DMN Taiwan. Read more |
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ITRI to collaborate with IBM on Racetrack Memory development Sep 18, 12:35 IBM announced that it has entered into a joint development agreement with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to further explore "Racetrack Memory," an entirely new approach to solid state memory. Read more |
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Taiwan market: Toshiba unveils 1.8-inch 120GB and 240GB HDDs Sep 12, 12:04 Toshiba Digital Media Network, a subsidiary of Toshiba, on September 10 debuted two internal 1.8-inch hard disk drives, a 1-platter 120GB MKxx31GAL and 2-platter 240GB MK2431GAH, for order by vendors or channel distributors in the Taiwan market, according to Toshiba Digital Media Network Taiwan. Read more |
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Taiwan market: WD launches new 3.5-inch hard drive VelociRaptor Aug 25, 12:15 Western Digital (WD) on August 22 unveiled two new models of its VelociRaptor hard drive series, the WD3000HLFS (with a storage capacity of 300GB) and the WD1500HLFS (150GB), for immediate launch in the Taiwan market at recommended retail prices of NT$9,999 (US$319) and NT$6,999 respectively, according to WD Taiwan. Read more |
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Insatiable demand carries HDDs through recession Jul 23, 10:30 Despite a poor second-quarter earnings performance from leading Hard Disk Drive (HDD) supplier Seagate Technology, the overall HDD industry is continuing to thrive in 2008 due to an insatiable demand for low-cost, high-capacity storage devices, according to iSuppli. Read more |
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Trends in storage, the economy and network: Comments from LSI CEO Abhi Talwalkar Jun 9, 14:41 LSI was founded in 1981 as an ASIC company that did service functions, which meant basically it turned others companies' IP into silicon. The company did that for more than 20 years, but in the years from 2000-2005 it seems that the company sort of lost its way. It had great technology but it was participating in a lot of different markets and there was no clear corporate strategy. Read more |
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