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...“The full extent of the damage to HDD industry factories will not be known until the floodwaters recede,” IDC analysts wrote....
...lowered fourth-quarter revenue guidance by about $1bn in early December, anticipating shortfalls in computer production due to flood damage, but Intel’s rival Advanced Micro Devices played down the impact of HDD...
...From the FT: Samsung to sell HDD unit to SeagateTexas Instruments profits dip with quake impactApple sues Samsung over patents for iPadWalmart taps into Silicon Valley expertise...
...TDK is Samsung’s exclusive supplier of HDD heads. The Nikkei 225 Average ended the session down 1.2 per cent to 9,441.03. In Seoul, Samsung Electronics gained 0.9 per cent to Won875,000....
...TDK is Samsung’s exclusive supplier of HDD heads. Over the week, the FTSE Asia Pacific index climbed 2.1 per cent to 268.2, after hitting a two month closing high on Thursday....
...The HDD division had just returned to profit, but there is little point in Hitachi battling the broader transition to faster and smaller flash drives....
...“Tablets like Apple Inc.’s iPad represent a major threat to HDD demand,” said Fang Zhang, analyst for storage systems at IHS....
...“Our conclusion is that HDD could demand around 1.5m ounces of platinum by 2015 or roughly 20 per cent of estimated 2010 global gross demand [for platinum],” it said....
...“HDDS and SSDs will co-exist for a long time.”...
...Leading solutions such as HDD Wipe ensure that devices are clean and data-free at the point of disposal, while hard disk erase is an increasingly common feature on print devices, ensuring that data is deleted...
...private equity firm which already owns Seagate, the world’s largest HDD manufacturer....
...Johnson Matthey’s interim pre-tax profits rose 15 per cent to over £120m as it reaped the benefits of growing demand for heavy duty diesel (HDD) catalysts and particulate filters....
...THE BREAKDOWN ECLIPSE AVN7000 HDD NAVIGATION SYSTEM Pros: Stunning design, sleek and powerful. The Rolls-Royce of AVN systems. Cons: Price....
...The CME places a value of $20 for each HDD or CDD for final cash settlement. In the New York example, the value of a January contract is $20,000....
...It is also gearing up for an aggressive marketing campaign for its six new models ranging from a 256 megabyte flash memory type to a 30 gigabyte HDD (hard disk drive) model capable of storing about 2,500...
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