There were 425.8 million hard disk drives (HDDs) shipped globally in 2016, slipping 9.2% on year, and annual shipments kept decreasing from the peak of 651.4 million units in 2010, according to International Disk Drive Equipment and ...
Tags: hard disk drives, notebooks
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has announced the appointment of Kathleen Bayless to its board of directors and its audit committee. From 2009 until her retirement in 2015, ...
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Hard disk drive (HDD) makers Western Digital and Seagate have announced their financial results for the third quarter and both makers are seeing their PC business revenue contributions weaken. PC HDDs only contributed about 34% of Western ...
Tags: HDD, PC, Seagate, storage, Western Digital
Remember the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that crippled the electronics supply chain? Or the floods that swept through Thailand and hit the disk drive industry? Or how Hurricane Sandy brought much of the US East Coast to a standstill? ...
Tags: Risk Management, Tricky Game
A near-doubling of the market for cwas unable to help the computer-related storage industry in 2013, which slid 5% in shipments because of continuing contractions in the hard-disk drive and optical disk drive segments, according to IHS. ...
Flash memory is fantastic stuff. It's small, it's fast, and it's robust. It's also absurdly expensive if you want a lot of it, which is at odds with our evolving media-hungry mobile lifestyle. Google, Apple, and Amazon would like us to ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Introduced for the 2013 model year, the new-generation Toyota Avalon dramatically energized the sedan’s position in the highly competitive premium mid-size segment, blending emotional design, more engaging performance, new technology ...
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WD have announced the release of the WD Black2 dual drive, which fuses a 2.5-inch 120 GB solid state drive (SSD) with a 1 TB hard disk drive (HDD). The drive connects through a single cable and fits into a conventional 9.5 mm slot. "Our ...
Tags: WD, SSD, HDD, Dual Drive, disk drive
WD(NASDAQ:WDC) has further strengthened its product portfolio with a new WD Black2 dual-drive, a 2.5-inch 120GB solid-state drive (SSD) with a 1TB hard disk drive (HDD) to offer a powerful dual-drive solution. Perfect for consumers and ...
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Sony has claimed the opening round in the next-generation games console battle after selling more than one million PlayStation 4 consoles in its opening weekend in just the US and Canada alone. That contrasts with a similar level of sales ...
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Security researchers have uncovered two unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE) which have been exploited by attackers in an unusual “watering hole” campaign launched from a U.S.-based website that specialises in ...
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Gigabyte is probably best known for its motherboards, graphics cards and other PC components. But the company is now branching out into finished hardware and, with a well-deserved reputation for producing quality components, its laptops and ...
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Engineered Material Systems (EMS), a global supplier of electronic materials for circuit assembly applications debuts its CA-195 high thermal conductivity, low cost electrically conductive LED die attach adhesive for attaching LED and other ...
Seagate Technology(NASDAQ:STX) has announced it is shipping the Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD. The enterprise solid-state hybrid drive (SSHD), the Enterprise Turbo SSHD combines the capacity of a hard drive with solid-state flash enabling ...
Tags: Turbo SSHD, Indian Enterprises
Fujitsu will this month launch a super-thin Ultrabook, built on Intel's latest Haswell processors, with an 11-hour battery life and a screen with nearly three times HD resolution. The company said the new "UH90/L" model from its Lifebook ...