Sony's optical disc business is facing challenges due to declining demand as data storage methods shift towards cloud-based solutions and plans to cut its workforce by 40%.
Quanta Storage will file an appeal against a US court ruling in favor of HP, which accuses the Taiwan-based company and six other disk-drive makers of participating in a price-fixing...
Quanta Storage has reported first-quarter 2017 consolidated revenues of NT$1.91 billion (US$63 million), growing 3.65% on year, net operating profit of NT$203.3 million, up 184.34%,...
Optical disc maker CMC Magnetics has obtained booming orders to fully occupy its production capacity until the end of 2016 because makers around the world have been forced out of...
Taiwan-based blank optical disc maker CMC Magnetics on September 21 signed with Japan-based Taiyo Yuden for the latter's licensing of technologies, patents, media IDs and trademarks...
Japan-based Taiyo Yuden will end production of optical discs, mainly CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R, at the end of 2015 and quit the optical disc market in March 2016 due to decreasing profitability...
Fast growth in cloud computing and Big Data analysis is expected to drive demand for Blu-ray discs in 2016, according to Taiwan-based blank optical disc makers.
Optical disc maker CMC Magnetics has indicated that optical disc prices will rise 5-10% in July 2014 while fellow maker Ritek said that it will hike quotes 10-15% in the third quar...
Blank optical disc makers are in disorder due to reshuffles currently, with some distressed makers cutting prices to compete for orders. Reshuffling is expected to remain over the...
Some Taiwan-based blank optical disc makers, including CMC Magnetics, Prodisc Technology and Gigastorage, plan to diversify business operations by stepping into the production of...
The global optical disc industry is experiencing a reshuffle which will continue into the first half of 2013 due to makers in Japan, as well as second- and third-tier Taiwan-based...
Optical disc drive maker (ODD) Lite-On IT has been aggressively expanding its solid state drive (SSD) business and expects its annual capacity for 2013 to reach 3.5-4 million units,...
Optical disc drive (ODD) makers have successfully reduced slim-type ODD thickness from the traditional size of 12.7mm to only 9.5mm to satisfy Intel's requirements for ultrabooks,...
As the traditional peak season effect in the PC industry may not appear in the third quarter of 2012, optical disc drive (ODD) makers such as Lite-On IT are now turning conservative...
Lite-On IT has announced revenues of NT$4.74 billion (US$158.12 million) for June, down 5.3% on year with revenues for the first half of 2012 reached NT$26.31 billion, down 11.5%...
