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1. IBM sued over DRAM patents

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 17 July 2009

   ... time and has only resorted to law because the talks have gone nowhere. Mosaid has a long list of licensees for its DRAM and embedded memory patents including Fujitsu, NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, ...

2. Toshiba to acquire Fujitsu’s hard drive business

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 25 February 2009

   ... gap to Hitachi GST, but remain the fourth largest hard drive maker worldwide. Tokyo (Japan) – There is more consolidation in the hard drive (HDD) business as Toshiba said it intends to acquire Fujitsu’s ...

3. Seagate SSD release date slips into 2009

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 10 October 2008

   ... HDD competitors of the company (exception: WD, which offers a speedy hard drive as SSD alternative, and Hitachi) are among a group of the world’s largest NAND flash manufacturers.  In addition, there ...

4. BD drive adoption rates slower than expected due to high OEM/ODM quotes

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

   Tuesday, 23 September 2008

   ... Acer and Asustek Computer, have asked global ODM/OEM makers, mainly Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS), Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology (TSST), Pioneer and Taiwan-based Lite-On IT, to decrease quotes to ...

5. 200 GB per disk: Toshiba leads 2.5” hard drive storage density

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 16 July 2008

   ... today’s mainstream desktop PCs. Toshiba also announced a 7200 rpm 320 GB drive. Samsung, Hitachi and Fujitsu have been offering 500 GB hard drives for some time now. These 5400 rpm drives (Fujitsu: 4200 ...

6. Seagate rolls out speedy 320 GB notebook hard drive

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 19 May 2008

   ... 33.9% share according to iSuppli, new drives have been introduced by the competition – especially by Western Digital, Hitachi GST, Fujitsu and Toshiba. But Seagate has reclaimed the lead today in the ...

7. Apple may be stylish, but it’s definitely not green

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 09 May 2008

   ... climate efforts. Apple's results fall far behind other tech companies:  IBM is at the top with 77 points, followed by Canon (74), Toshiba (70), Sony (68), Hewlett-Packard (68), Motorola (66), Hitachi ...

8. Second-tier brands all to be affected by LCD TV price war

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Wednesday, 26 March 2008

   ... that other more famous second-tier players such as Hitachi and Toshiba will see their sales affected as well this year. More here at Digitimes.  ...

9. DVD Forum sets new rules on China HD DVD format

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 29 February 2008

   ... industry, Intel from the IT industry and Warner from the Content industry. Other SC members include Hitachi, IBM, ITRI, LG, Matsushita, Memory-Tech, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, NEC, Paramount, Pioneer, Samsung, ...

10. 250 GB in notebooks going mainstream

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 January 2008

    ... market by a long shot; in fact Hitachi just announced a 500 GB 2.5” drive scheduled  to be introduced later this year, Samsung and Western Digital claim to be already shipping 250 GB and 320 ...

11. Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu may join to create HDD firm

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 January 2008

    Hitachi is rumored to be in talks with Toshiba and Fujitsu to launch a new joint venture dedicated to the hard drive market, according to media reports. Tokyo (Japan) - Hitachi is rumored to be in ...

12. Update: The Black Friday Shopping List

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 November 2007

    ...  Canon 8 MP, 6x optical zoon $209.99 Circuit City Digital Camcorder Hitachi HDD Hybrid $299.99 Circuit City Digital Camera Panasonic ...

13. A comparison of next-gen display interfaces

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 31 July 2007

    ... redefined to move data in this way, but are not currently. Supporters Intel, Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, NEC and Silicon Image Hitachi, Matsushita, Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thompson, Toshiba ...

14. Western Digital acquires disk manufacturer Komag for $1 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 28 June 2007

    ... takes WDC to the same level as its competitors such as Seagate, Hitachi GST, Samsung and Toshiba. The companies agreed on a purchase price of $32.25 per share, which translates into a total price of about ...

15. Hard drives get cheaper, profit margins decline

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 13 June 2007

    ... pricing pressure “due to intense competition and changing demand patterns”.  There are only six major hard drive manufacturers left (Seagate, WD, Hitachi GST, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu, ...

16. Price war for slim DVD burners surfaces again

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 20 April 2007

    ... segment reduced to less than $40, compared to $42-45 in the first quarter of 2007 and $45-48 in the fourth quarter of 2006, according to sources. Makers such as Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) and Toshiba ...

17. Seagate increases lead in hard drive market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 07 March 2007

    ... from 17.7% to 19.6%, Hitachi GST climbed from 15.5% to 16.1%, Samsung from 7.2% to 10.0% and Toshiba from 8.7% to 9.0%. Overall, the hard drive market expanded by 15.5% from about 375.8 million shipped ...

18. Fujitsu intros first 2.5” 7200 rpm hard drive with SATA 2.5 interface

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 March 2007

    ... 7200 rpm 2.5” drives are available from multiple sources in the market, while this specific combination, however, is unique to Fujitsu at this time. For example, Seagate and Hitachi are both offering ...

19. CES 2007: Hybrid hard drives promoted through industry alliance

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 04 January 2007

    ... The new Hybrid Storage Alliance was founded by Seagate, Hitachi GST, Toshiba and Samsung and only misses Western Digital as the remaining top-2 hard drive vendor, which, however, as the only top-5 company ...

20. Consumer Electronics Show 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Sunday, 31 December 2006

    ...  Westinghouse shows off the Quad HDTV LG to roll out dual-format Blu-ray/HD DVD player in Q1 200 GB Blu-ray discs, 16.5 GB Mini discs in the works Hitachi ...

21. Fujitsu announces 300 GB notebook hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 11 December 2006

    If you considered the impact of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) on hard drives, as rather negligible so Fujitsu's announcement this morning may change your opinion: The company said it will begin ...

22. Toshiba intros 1.8" 100 GB hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 December 2006

    ... is fresh on the heels of a similar one from Hitachi, which plans to release a 250 GB 2.5" mobile HDD next year, claiming the capacity record for that size. That title had belonged to Toshiba as well, with ...

23. Samsung joins the perpendicular hard drive party

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 14 November 2006

    ... our perpendicular hard drive slideshow Toshiba fires up 200 GB perpendicular notebook hard drive Hitachi launches 160 GB perpendicular mobile hard drive Seagate announces 160 GB perpendicular notebook ...

24. 16x DVD burners fall below $30

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 06 November 2006

    ... the company's main competitor, because TSST offered prices as low as below $25, according to industry sources in Taiwan. The competition for OEM/ODM orders for DVD burners among Lite-On IT, TSST and Hitachi-LG ...

25. Lite-On IT said to ship 18x LightScribe DVD burners to HP in November

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 02 November 2006

      While Lite-On IT is expected to start shipping 18x DVD burners to Hewlett-Packard (HP) this month, the growing tension in competition between Lite-On IT, Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) and Toshiba-Samsung ...

26. Gateway recalls 35,000 Sony batteries

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 23 October 2006

    ... manufacturer that has been forced to recall the batteries: In recent weeks, Dell, Apple, Toshiba, Lenovo, IBM, Fujitsu and Hitachi have recalled more than 7.5 million notebooks. Sony estimates that the ...

27. Battery recall estimated to cost Sony at least $430 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 October 2006

    ... months ago, now includes Dell, Apple, IBM, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Sony. Correlatively, Sony today also announced changes to its earnings forecast for the rest of the year. It was obvious ...

28. Sony recalls own laptop batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 17 October 2006

    ... Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and Hitachi have all taken their place in the list of notebook manufacturers that use Sony batteries that have been recalled. Since the battery problems first became known, and ...

29. Hitachi becomes newest victim of Sony recall

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 06 October 2006

    Not wanting to feel left out, Hitachi announced today that 16,000 of their notebook computers are affected by the worldwide recall of Sony laptop batteries. This adds to the massive recall from multiple ...

30. Maxtor hard drives get Seagate genes

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 02 October 2006

    ... The fact that Maxtor will be aimed to defend Seagate from pricing pressures of other hard drive manufacturers such as Hitachi GST or Toshiba, raises questions whether Seagate will be able to transform ...

31. Western Digital intros its first perpendicular hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 13 September 2006

    Western Digital (WD) has caught up with other hard drive manufacturers such as Seagate, Toshiba and Hitachi and is offering its first hard drive that uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR). The new ...

32. Seagate extends lead in hard drive market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 19 July 2006

    ... Q4; Fujitsu and Excelsor also were able to post slight gains. On the other end, Hitachi GST and Toshiba had to give up market shares and had to deal with declining shipments. Hitachi GST, the world's third ...

33. Lite-On IT to offer 20x DVD burners in Q4

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 17 July 2006

    ... (TSST), NEC, Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS), Pioneer and I-O Data Device are among the brands expected to release 18x DVD burners soon, the sources indicated. More here at DigiTimes.  ...

34. 200 GB notebook hard drives to enter volume production in Q3

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 22 June 2006

    ... drive manufacturers such as Toshiba, Western Digital as well as other smaller drive manufacturers that do not have the capacity to develop their own platters, such as Seagate and Hitachi GST. Showa Denko ...

35. HDMI 1.3 multimedia interface officially introduced

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 22 June 2006

    ... Audio. HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), a technology that initially was developed and promoted by Hitachi, Matsushita, Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson and Toshiba, is considered as one ...

36. Seagate to offer hybrid hard drives for Vista notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 07 June 2006

    ... recently countered by Hitachi with a 160 GB 2.5" version as well. Toshiba surpassed its rivals with a 200 GB 2.5" announcement earlier this week. While Seagate did not announce a match for Toshiba's drive ...

37. Toshiba fires up 200 GB perpendicular notebook hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 June 2006

    ... hard drive industry. While Seagate was first out of the gate with a hard drive that pushed 2.5" drive capacities from 120 GB to 160 GB in January of this year, and Hitachi was able to follow with a matching ...

38. Hitachi launches 160 GB perpendicular mobile hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 14 May 2006

    Following Toshiba and Seagate, Hitachi today announced its first perpendicular magnetic recording technology (PMR) hard disk. The drive offers 160 GB in a 2.5" form factor and promises at least as much ...

39. Hybrid hard drives: Can Samsung and Microsoft invent a new market for 2007?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 17 March 2006

    ... of the book Building Storage Networks. "As a second tier disk drive manufacturer, broad HDD technology acceptance could potentially leapfrog [Samsung] past Seagate, Western Digital, and Hitachi, to name ...

40. Hard disk shipments reach new record level

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 February 2006

    ... Digital reported record revenues and healthy net incomes. Hitachi GST reported a profitable quarter after a string of net losses. Both Fujitsu's and Toshiba's parent companies stated that their hard disk ...

41. NEC, Sony and Toshiba team to develop 45 nm process

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 01 February 2006

    ... economics work. One of the first joint-production announcements in this trend was made by Hitachi, Toshiba and Renesas, which agreed to develop a 65 and 45 nm production facility that is expected to cost ...

42. Hitachi, Toshiba and Renesas to build 65 nm fab

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 20 January 2006

      Hitachi, Toshiba and Renesas will collaborate on building a new fab that all three companies can use for outsourcing semiconductor manufacturing. According to a press release, the three firms will ...

43. Major Japanese firms to cooperate on new chip plant

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 28 December 2005

      Hitachi, Toshiba and Renesas have announced that they are working together to build a new semiconductor plant. The three companies have also invited Matsushita Electrical and NEC Electronics. The ...

44. Imation announces 4 GByte portable micro hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 28 December 2005

    ... new micro hard drive offers 4 GB and relies on a Toshiba-built 0.85" drive. At a suggested retail of $190 it is pricey - regular 4 GByte micro drives from Seagate and Hitachi currently sell between $125 ...

45. UPDATE: By acquiring Maxtor, Seagate gains a low-cost foothold in China

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 December 2005

    ... manufacturer may populate the landscape in 2007, there will still be five major manufacturers and three minor ones. Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi (which acquired the HDD manufacturing facilities of ...

46. Hitachi, Toshiba, three others to jointly build fabrication facility

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 18 November 2005

      From Reuters The Yomiuri newspaper is reporting, and Reuters is translating this afternoon, that Hitachi, Toshiba, NEC, Matsushita, and Renesas Technology (a Hitachi/Mitsubishi joint venture) will ...

47. Analysts cautious about panel market in H1 2006

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 12 October 2005

    ... (6G) plant from IPS Alpha Technology, a joint venture between Hitachi, Matsushita Electric Industrial and Toshiba, and the 7.5G plant from LG.Philips LCD is key to supply conditions in the first half of ...

48. Blu-ray / HD DVD battle plays out in real-time at Japan trade show

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 05 October 2005

    ... Senior Vice President Hasashi Yamada, the company's lead representative to the HD DVD Promotions Group, plus representatives from Hitachi and NEC, in one of the first public sessions where Microsoft and ...

49. Hitachi to release one-teraByte DVD-R, not to wait for high-def DVD

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 25 August 2005

      Japan's Hitachi Ltd. Japan's Hitachi Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled the world's first hard disk drive/DVD recorder that can store one teraByte of data, or enough to record about 128 hours of high-definition ...

50. OEM prices for 16x DVD burners drop to $40

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Thursday, 07 July 2005

      OEM quotations for 16x DVD burners have dropped to about US$40 due to intense competition for orders from leading vendors such as Pioneer, NEC, Lite-On IT, BenQ, HLDS (Hitachi-LG Data Storage) and ...