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Tuesday 18 October 2011
Ultrabook players to adopt hybrid HDD to save cost
Hybrid hard disc drives (HDD) have recently become a popular choice among notebook brand vendors for their ultrabook models, according to sources from ultrabook players.
Monday 17 October 2011
Flooding in Thailand may cause global short supply of HDDs in December, say Taiwan makers
Suppliers of hard disk drives (HDDs) have lowered inventory levels from 20-25 days to 10-15 days due to weak demand, according to industry sources. The decreased inventory volumes...
Thursday 13 October 2011
Market for hard drives and other storage devices expands despite challenges, says IHS iSuppli
Shipments of storage devices for computers rose across the board during the second quarter, resulting from the March earthquake in Japan after panicked manufacturers strove to replenish...
Thursday 13 October 2011
Seagate, WD update impact of Thai flooding
Seagate Technology and Western Digital (WD), the two biggest companies in the global HDD market, have provided updates to their operations in Thailand in light of the current flooding...
Thursday 13 October 2011
HDD industry impacted by Thailand floods
HDD players Western Digital, Seagate, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) and Toshiba have all been impacted by the floods in Thailand amid power shortages and a breakdown...
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Global HDD shipments to grow only 3% sequentially in 3Q11
Global hard disc drive (HDD) shipments are expected to grow slightly by 3% in the third quarter, up from 165 million units in the second, while shipments in the fourth quarter are...
Wednesday 7 September 2011
HDD shipments rise 4% in 2Q11, says IHS iSuppli
Despite the impact of the Japan earthquake, shipments of hard disk drives (HDD) edged up in the second quarter, according to a new IHS iSuppli Storage Space Market Brief from information...
Wednesday 10 August 2011
Cal-Comp expects to ship 18 million external HDDs in 2011
Cal-Comp Electronics, a Thailand-based EMS (electronics manufacturing service) provider belonging to the Taiwan-based Kinpo-Compal Group, expects to ship 18 million external hard...
Friday 5 August 2011
Can Seagate thin HDD stave off the threat of SSDs? asks IHS
Seagate Technology's introduction of a super-slim hard disk drive (HDD) could help the HDD industry stave off the incursion of solid-state drives (SSDs) in the notebook and tablet...
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Taiwan memory module firms expanding portable HDD lines
The market for external HDDs is expected to boom buoyed by the growing popularity of mobile computers such as thin and lightweight notebooks, and tablet PCs. Taiwan-based memory module...
Friday 15 July 2011
JMicron lands USB 3.0 chip orders from Samsung
JMicron Technology has grabbed orders for USB 3.0 hard drive (HDD) controllers from Samsung Electronics, with shipments slated for August, according to market sources.
Thursday 7 July 2011
Pressure to be lifted on rare earth element pricing, says Information Network
Manufacturers of a broad spectrum of high-tech products have been feeling the impact of price hikes in rare earth element-based processing materials because of China's embargo in...
Wednesday 22 June 2011
Global HDD supply short by 10 million units in 2Q11
Global demand for hard disk drives (HDDs) in the second quarter is estimated at 160 million units while total supply by the five main international vendors is expected to be 150 million...
Monday 20 June 2011
Global short supply of HDDs expected in 2H11
Although Texas Instruments and Renesas Electronics, the global suppliers HDD chips, have resumed operations at their Japan factories damaged by the earthquake on March 11, 2011, demand...
Friday 3 June 2011
Commentary: HDD market consolidates as players keep their eyes on the cloud
The year 2011 has been a volatile one for the hard drive disk (HDD) industry. With Western Digital having bought Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) for US$4.3 billion and...