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Wednesday 29 August 2012
Western Digital shakes off Thailand flood impact, retakes HDD market lead in 2Q12, says IHS
Six months after losing the top spot in the global hard disk drive (HDD) segment due to the flooding disaster in Thailand, Western Digital in the second quarter recovered its market...
Tuesday 21 August 2012
Acer, HP consider to take back chassis purchase authority
Acer and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are considering to retrieve their chassis purchase authority from notebook ODMs in hoping to effectively control their production capacity and quality,...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
HDD players reportedly to push development of 5mm designs for ultrabook
Hard disc drive (HDD) players have reportedly split some of their hybrid storage solutions R&D resources to work on 5mm HDDs in order to create a product that can satisfy demand...
Monday 23 July 2012
HDDs still dominance in notebook market, IHS says
Despite sluggish sales, conventional notebooks equipped with hard disk drives (HDD) as their main storage medium are unlikely to have their market share threatened in the near term...
Friday 6 July 2012
SSDs may replace HDDs to become mainstream storage in 3-5 years
The large earthquake in northeastern Japan in March 2011 and flooding in Thailand in October 2011 resulted in short supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) and therefore pushed up prices...
Thursday 5 July 2012
Mixed storage solutions key to popularity of ultrabook PCs, says HGST executive
The sales performance for first-generation Ultrabook PCs equipped with SSDs (solid-state drives) has fallen short of expectations because of high sales prices due to high costs of...
Wednesday 27 June 2012
Taiwan market: Seagate launches external HDD Backup Plus
Seagate Technology on June 26 unveiled Backup Plus, a series of external hard disk drives (HDD) equipped with Seagate Dashboard software which supports one-click local backup and...
Friday 15 June 2012
Cache is king in solid state drive market, says IHS
Hybrid hard disk drives (HDD) containing a built-in layer of NAND flash memory may offer the advantage of consolidated storage for increasingly popular ultrabooks, but cache solid...
Wednesday 13 June 2012
High prices generate record revenues for HDD market in 1Q12, says IHS
The global hard disk drive (HDD) industry surged to record revenues in the first quarter, thanks to higher average selling prices that compensated for the wreckage and loss in shipments...
Thursday 7 June 2012
ASMedia says orders for USB 3.0 HDD controllers rising
ASMedia Technology has seen orders for USB 3.0 bridge controller ICs used in hard drives (HDD) pick up significantly in May and June, according to company president Lin Che-wei. Moreover,...
Tuesday 15 May 2012
Taiwan market: HP unveils five new ultrabooks
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has unveiled five new ultrabooks under its Envy 4 and Envy 6 series in Taiwan with a chassis design that combines a metal-based bezel with a plastic-based bottom;...
Monday 16 April 2012
Desktops set to adopt 2.5-inch hard drives as all-in-one PC form factor gains favor, says IHS
Demand from all-in-one PCs combined with requirements for lower power consumption and a thinner, smaller storage alternative to existing 3.5-inch hard disk drives (HDD) will help...
Friday 30 March 2012
Taiwan market: HDD prices expected to drop at end of April
Retail channels of HDDs in the Taiwan market will lower prices by about 10% at the end of April in order to adjust inventories and promote sales. Pricing for a 3.5-inch 500GB model...
Friday 30 March 2012
ASMedia expects controller shipments to top 100 million in 2012
ASMedia Technology's overall controller shipments are likely to top 100 million units in 2012, driven by orders for USB 3.0 host controllers and new contracts for USB 3.0 bridge controllers...
Monday 19 March 2012
ASMedia, VIA Labs grab USB 3.0 controller orders from Japan
ASMedia Technology and VIA Labs have secured orders for USB 3.0 controller chips used in external hard drives from Japan-based vendors such as Toshiba and Sony, with volume shipments...