IBM / Fujitsu / Ave Seek Times / Maxtor / Samsung Electronics / BT / Amp / Seagate / Hitachi / Western Digital / Peripheral Research Corporation / Deposition Systems / Hutchinson Technology / Read / Intevac / /
Continent
Asia / /
Country
Japan / United States / /
Currency
AMD / USD / /
Event
Reorganization / Business Partnership / /
Facility
Square Inch Using Perpendicular Magnetic Recording / Square Inch Using Dual Stage Actuators / Santa Clara University / /
IndustryTerm
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Organization
Santa Clara Valley IEEE Magnetics Society / IEEE Magnetics Society / Santa Clara University Santa Clara / /
Person
Jacques Kools / Roger Wood / Mark Geenan / Terry Bluck / /
Position
independent head supplier / FIB Head Write / rt / player / head / Professor IIST / magnetic recording head / Analyst / remaining head / /
Product
Head Suspension / Read-Rite / /
ProvinceOrState
Manitoba / /
Technology
semiconductor / drive technology / speech recognition / Disk Drive / GPS / mobile phones / component technology / MP3 / random access / corrosion protection / servo algorithms / enterprise storage systems / laser / neural network / dielectric / head actuator motor technologies / digital cameras / component technologies / Recording Technology / magnetic data storage technology / Fibre Channel / disk drive technology / SCSI / /
High Density Hard Disk Drive Trends in the USA Thomas M. Coughlin Adjunct Professor IIST, Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA The United States is a major center for disk drive technology. Feeding the current extraord