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Tuesday 12 April 2011
Memory module firm Silicon Power to deal out dividend of NT$2.50 for 2010
Memory module maker Silicon Power Computer & Communications will hand out total dividends of NT$2.50 (US$0.09) - NT$1.50 in cash and NT$1 in shares - for 2010, according to a...
Friday 1 April 2011
HDD prices for OEM market to increase 5-10% in 2Q11
Due to a shortage of controller chips for motors used in hard disk drives, prices of HDDs in the OEM market are likely to increase by 5-10% in the second quarter. Prices in the channel...
Thursday 24 March 2011
HDD components grow 25% in 2010, says Information Network
While the hard disk drive (HDD) market recorded disk drive unit shipment growth of 17.1% in 2010, component manufacturers such as heads and suspensions grew 24.7%, according to The...
Tuesday 22 March 2011
PQI unveils external USB 3.0 HDD
Memory module maker Power Quotient International (PQI) has announced a new 2.5-inch external hard disk drive (HDD) series, the H567L/V, which has both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 transfer...
Monday 21 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Japan earthquake to affect HDD industry
The global hard disk drive (HDD) industry, already facing challenges from solid state drives (SSDs), cloud computing and limitation of vertical read-write technologies, is expected...
Friday 11 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: WD buys HGST to increase HDD market share
Japan-based Hitachi on March 7 announced that it has sold subsidiary Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), a top three hard disk drive (HDD) maker globally, to Western Digital...
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Western Digital to become dominate HDD maker with Hitachi acquisition, says iSuppli
With its purchase of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST), hard drive maker Western Digital (WDC) will pad its lead in the global hard disk drive (HDD) market, giving...
Wednesday 23 February 2011
Western Digital unseats Seagate in 2010, says Information Network
Western Digital (WD) took command of the hard disk drive (HDD) market in 2010 from long-time leader Seagate on the strength of its market momentum in mobile computing, according to...
Friday 14 January 2011
Tablet shipments signal trouble for HDD market, says Information Network
Media Tablets, already cannibalizing netbooks and smartbooks, will impact hard disk drive (HDD) sales as units contain solid state drives (SSDs) instead of HDDs, according to The...
Thursday 13 January 2011
HDD component maker Min Aik expects double-digital growth in 2011 shipments
Taiwan-based hard disk drive (HDD) component maker Min Aik Technology has announced revenues of NT$3.1 billion (US$106.69 million) for the fourth quarter of 2010, up 2.89% on quarter...
Wednesday 12 January 2011
Cal-Comp expects HDD production to drive growth in 2011 revenues
Cal-Comp Electronics, a Thailand-based EMS provider belonging to the Taiwan-based Compal-Kinpo Group, recorded consolidated revenues of NT$120.868 billion (US$3.78 billion) for 2010...
Tuesday 28 December 2010
Global shipment proportion for 2.5-inch 500GB single-platter HDDs to rise to 40% in 2Q11
The proportion of 2.5-inch 500GB single-platter models in global hard disk drive (HDD) shipments is forecast at 30-35% for first-quarter 2011 and 40% for the second quarter, according...
Thursday 16 December 2010
Hard drives have a happy holiday, says iSuppli
Manufacturers of hard disk drives (HDD) are expected to receive a late-year boost during the holiday season as shipments rally during the fourth quarter, according to market research...
Wednesday 24 November 2010
Notebook HDD capacities to reach 500GB in 2011, netbooks 320GB
The mainstream capacity of notebook internal hard disk drives (HDDs) will increase from 320GB in 2010 to 500GB in 2011, while netbook drives will be 320GB, according to Taiwan-based...
Tuesday 26 October 2010
Hard drive shortage may persist through 1Q11
As notebook brand vendors are starting to prepare their shipments for the end-of-year holidays, hard drive makers, which had conservative production plans for the fourth quarter due...