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Hitachi, Fujitsu to exit small iPod-sized hard drive business

Wednesday, January 02, 2008 - 01:18 PM EDT

"Hitachi Ltd, Japan's biggest electronics conglomerate, plans to exit the business of making small hard disk drives as demand shifts to flash memory chips, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday," Reuters reports.

"Hitachi's hard drive unit, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc, has already stopped production of 1-inch hard drives and plans to stop shipping 1.8-inch drives around next summer, the newspaper said," Reuters reports.

"The Nikkei also said Hitachi rival Fujitsu Ltd. has given up on plans to enter the market for small drives. Fujitsu had been developing 1.8-inch drives with U.S.-based Cornice with plans to bring a product to market in 2007," Reuters reports.

"Small hard drives are increasingly being replaced by flash memory chips as the memory storage device in video cameras and portable music players, such as Apple Inc's popular iPod, as flash memory capacity improves and prices come down," Reuters reports.

Full article here.

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Jan 02, 08 - 02:23 pm Comment from: smyhre

Well you can only make a hard drive so small.

Jan 02, 08 - 02:25 pm Comment from: Neener Neener

That's not what your ex-girlfriend said.

Jan 02, 08 - 02:25 pm Comment from: cptnkirk

You don't need a feedbag if your vehicle runs on gasoline instead of oats.

Jan 02, 08 - 02:26 pm Comment from: Curious Puzzling Post

The boat sails at midnight.

Jan 02, 08 - 02:26 pm Comment from: montex

If my grandma had wheels, she'd be a wagon.

Jan 02, 08 - 02:32 pm Comment from: Michael Stipe

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Jan 02, 08 - 02:35 pm Comment from: Angelus520

Michael Stipe "borrowed" that from Dan Rather

Jan 02, 08 - 02:38 pm Comment from: ouch

Dan Rather got hit in the head with a brick

Jan 02, 08 - 02:39 pm Comment from: Ampar

A wet bird never flies at night.

Jan 02, 08 - 02:43 pm Comment from: HarderDrive

My dingle is a dongle.

Jan 02, 08 - 02:56 pm Comment from: His Shadow

A watched egg never boils.

Wait...

Jan 02, 08 - 02:57 pm Comment from: Bob

Gumball

Jan 02, 08 - 02:58 pm Comment from: Paddy O'Reilly O'Schwartzenburg

Can't fly without an umbrella.

Jan 02, 08 - 02:59 pm Comment from: Switched

If I medicined you, you'd think a brain tumour was a birthday present...

Jan 02, 08 - 03:02 pm Comment from: Legend

Confuscious he say; do not eat yellow snow

Jan 02, 08 - 03:03 pm Comment from: Ampar

Where there are spokes, there are tires.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:04 pm Comment from: Switched

Very, very foolish words, man.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:04 pm Comment from: bjh

If it happens, it must be possible.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:06 pm Comment from: Rip Van Winkle

What does the color Nine smell like?

Jan 02, 08 - 03:07 pm Comment from: Switched

I can never touch meat until it's cooked. As a youth I used to weep in butchers' shops.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:07 pm Comment from: Paddy O'Reilly O'Schwartzenburg

The chair is against the wall.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:08 pm Comment from: Ampar

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:08 pm Comment from: nobodi

Wherever you've been, there you were.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:10 pm Comment from: Frunk

Mauve has more RAM

Jan 02, 08 - 03:11 pm Comment from: Ampar

If you fart in church, you'll get your own pew.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:14 pm Comment from: wonderin' aloud

isn't there a limit on how many times you can write to flash memory?

Jan 02, 08 - 03:18 pm Comment from: Ampar

"isn't there a limit on how many times you can write to flash memory?"

Yes.

"Another limitation is that flash memory has a finite number of erase-write cycles (most commercially available flash products are guaranteed to withstand 100,000 write-erase-cycles for block 0, and no guarantees for other blocks)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Limitations

Jan 02, 08 - 03:19 pm Comment from: Micro Me

Pointless thread requires a needle.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:20 pm Comment from: doc

the eagle has landed

Jan 02, 08 - 03:20 pm Comment from: Frederick Free

Never put the cart before the horse, unless he knows how to push it of course......

Jan 02, 08 - 03:20 pm Comment from: Toasty

nudge nudge SAY NO MORE!

Jan 02, 08 - 03:22 pm Comment from: george carlin

you ever notice that your own farts smell okay?

Jan 02, 08 - 03:28 pm Comment from: wonderin' aloud

@Ampar
Thanks - that's more than i thought.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:29 pm Comment from: ron

A push in the bush is worth two in the hand.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:30 pm Comment from: Kenny

She likes vegetation.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:35 pm Comment from: Ampar

How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?

Fugu.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:35 pm Comment from: Micro Me

I've always wondered. Did Ethel the Aardvark go quantity surveying?

Jan 02, 08 - 03:49 pm Comment from: Index 24

"I've always wondered. Did Ethel the Aardvark go quantity surveying?"

No, she became a mud wrestler in Perth.

Jan 02, 08 - 03:53 pm Comment from: Micro Me

Thanks Index. That's troubled me for years.

Jan 02, 08 - 04:01 pm Comment from: Tom Johnston

What were once vices are now habits!!

Jan 02, 08 - 04:04 pm Comment from: Ampar

"I think, therefore I am
I hesitate, therefore I um
I write poetry, therefore iamb.
I hitchhike, therefore I thumb"

- Ethel the Aardvark

Jan 02, 08 - 04:04 pm Comment from: Scot Murphy

Wait a minute. Dark is faster than wood.

Jan 02, 08 - 04:12 pm Comment from: Ampar

And heat is faster than cold. You can catch cold.

Jan 02, 08 - 04:26 pm Comment from: John Kerry

A white stratocaster is more resonant and sounds better than a black one.

This has been one of the more interesting and useful threads on MDN.

Jan 02, 08 - 04:27 pm Comment from: Transmission

@ Micro Me. I'm surprised you didn't know about Ethel.

Jan 02, 08 - 04:29 pm Comment from: The Truth

Well thank god they're not giving up 5 1/4" floppies yet.

Jan 02, 08 - 04:31 pm Comment from: Micro Me

@ Transmission. Yeah, it was remiss of me not to stay in touch.

A guy called Eric the Pink once told me he'd invited Ethel over for brine shrimps. She was with this bird called Bentonite, and they left footprints all over the carpet. That should have given me the hint.

Really interesting things, snall hard drives.

Jan 02, 08 - 04:31 pm Comment from: Scot Murphy

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.

Jan 02, 08 - 04:35 pm Comment from: Ampar

I heard that the man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

Jan 02, 08 - 04:40 pm Comment from: Ampar

The zookeeper knew categorically it was a tiger attack.

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