Harddisk Manufacturers

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...iterating through the "inner loop" of editing, building, running, and debugging code. He's decided to do something about it with a startup called Posedge Software Inc. Sony challenges iPod with Walkman hard-disk player Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Walkman, Sony will introduce a Walkman music...

Hard-disk drive industry braces for technology changes After successfully postponing a crucial technology transition for decades through process re-engineering, the hard-disk drive (HDD) industry is finally coming to terms with the reality that many of its underlying technologies are approaching...

...set out to convert a San Jose sports complex into a computer hard-disk manufacturing facility for its MaxMedia division in 1997. In five months, a state-of-the-art, earthquake-proof campus that houses R&D, administrative departments, and manufacturing operations was built, and in one year the plant...

...platform for removable hard-disk drives in both PC and non-PC products, eight Japanese companies have formed the iVDR Hard-Disk Drive Consortium. Group to form content-protection specs for audio players A group of consumer electronics manufacturers and technology suppliers have formed the Digital...

...of disquiet in India has set in as a result of the terror attacks against the United States and threats of retaliation by Washington. Hard-disk drive makers rev up in tough times Drive makers like Maxtor, IBM and Seagate, and sputtering equipment suppliers and semiconductor...

...is close to announcing a 1-inch hard-disk drive that could offer 50 percent greater capacity than IBM Corp.'s Microdrive at less than half the cost. Consortium vows to simplify IP reuse in SoCs A group of EDA, silicon intellectual property (IP) and semiconductor vendors will announce the formation...

Board-level motion controllers typically contain one or more circuit boards mounted in a card-rack chassis. One board generally holds the computer and memory hardware. Another holds the interface for any mass storage such as a hard-disk drive. Other boards may be used to provide input/output...

ATA drives By applying network switching to hard-disk drives, startup 3ware Inc. believes it has found a way to bring ATA drives up to the same speed as more expensive SCSI drives. As the company begins shipping its first products next month, its founders believe they can help PC OEMs improve system...

...that enables most instructions to be executed in a single clock cycle. The new core--called Super10--doubles the execution speed of existing ST10 microcontrollers in such applications as hard-disk drives, automotive electronics and consumer systems, said STMicroelectronics. It also adds DSP functionality...