The serious flooding in Thailand has forced hard disk drive (HDD) assembly and HDD component factories in the area to stop production and consequently a global shortage of HDDs is...
Taiwan-based slim-type optical disc drive makers have inventories of pick-up heads (PUHs) for use until May, but supply may fall short from June due to the impact of the earthquake...
The supply of components for optical disc drives (ODDs) for notebooks is unlikely to suffer a shortage due to the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan as major Japan-based suppliers...
Supply of Sony's Blu-ray drive pick-up heads is facing danger of seeing shortages as the plants of Sony Shiraishi Semiconductor, a Blu-ray drive pick-up head manufacturing subsidiary...
Supply of pick-up heads of PC-use optical disc drives (ODDs) from Japan-based makers, including Sanyo Electric, Sharp and Panasonic, is unlikely to be affected by the March 11 earthquake...
International quotes for Blu-ray Disc (BD) pick-up heads (PUHs) have dropped to below US$20, and are expected to keep falling to US$10-12 in 2011, according to Taiwan-based makers.
Taiwan maker of pick-up heads (PUHs) for DVD-ROM drives Topray Technology,and international DVD+RW/-RW PUH suppliers Sanyo Electric, Hitachi, Sharp, Panasonic and LG Electronics all...
Topray Technology, which makes ROM (read-only memory) optical pick-up heads (PUHs), will expand its capacity in 2010 to cope with increasing demand, and will extend production to...
The short supply of pick-up heads used in slim-type optical disc drives (ODDs) from the second quarter of 2009 has begun to ease, according to Taiwan based ODD makers.
The supply of optical disc drives used in notebook and desktops will remain tight in the third quarter of 2009 due to a shortage of pick-up heads (PUHs), according to industry sources...
The global supply of pick-up heads (PUHs) used in optical disc drives (ODDs) has fallen into considerable short supply, which will not ease until the end of the second quarter, according...
MediaTek and Sunplus Technology, two Taiwan-based consumer IC design houses, are in the process of certifying Blu-ray Disc (BD) player chipsets with potential clients and expect to...
Japan-based Mitsubishi Chemical, in view of global short supply of Blu-ray Disc (BD) pick-up heads (PUHs), is planning to step into production of high-power (200-300mW) laser diodes...
