Mr. Thomas Coughlin
President, Coughlin Associates
Member of the Technology Council
Council Member Biography
Tom Coughlin is the President of Coughlin Associates, Inc. He is an acknowledged authority on data storage products including storage devices, network attached storage, storage area networks, and storage applications. Dr. Coughlin has held senior engineering and management positions at companies such as Seagate, Maxtor, Micropolis, Syquest and Ampex. His responsibilities include technical evaluations, project management, market and technology reports, technical article writing, and conference organizing. He is also very involved in IDEMA, A senior member of IEEE and past chairman of SCV Magnetics and Consumer Electronics Society as well as past SCV Section Chairman. Dr. Coughlin has been publicity chair of the 1992, 1996, and 2001 TMRC conference and he is the organizer of the annual Storage Visions Conference. (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 2001 - Unspecified
- President, Coughlin Associates
GLG NewsSM Analyses by Thomas Coughlin(?)
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Next generation flash will be less expensive
February 3, 2010
Intel, Micron Introduce 25nm NAND Flash Production | www.pcworld.com
Intel and Micron have a joint venture based in Utah working on NAND flash technology. The companies have revealed a 25 nm flash production process, the smallest production semiconductor features yet. Smaller features allows more flash memory cells on a chip and thus lowers the costs of flash storage starting later this year. In order to stay competitive hard disk drives must continue their technology development or they will lose ground to flash.
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SSDs make sense as computer boot drives
January 28, 2010
Kingston Coming With 30 GB ‘Boot’ SSD for $80 | www.tomshardware.com
Kingston announced that it is offering a 30 GB SSD for holding operating system and applications. This drive would be used to let a computer boot more quickly and load and move between applications more quickly. These products can be used with a HDD where user files and content are stored. A hybrid storage approach could make a lot of sense for faster booting computers without giving up the storage capacity of today’s HDDs.
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What could help blu-ray discs become widespread in the US?
January 28, 2010
Blu-ray Beginning to Gain on DVD Player Market | mesalliance.org
Blu-ray discs won the HD format war a little more than a year ago, just in time for the economic downturn and reduced consumer spending. Blu-ray discs and players have become popular in Japan but not as popular in the US due to the costs of drives and discs and the success of upconverted DVD players. In the holiday season of 2009 there were reports of less than $100 Blu-ray players and some Blu-ray titles selling for about $10, lower prices should drive additional demand.
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Western Digital confirms growth and profitability for HDDs in 2010
January 23, 2010
Western Digital Posts Higher 2Q Profit, Sales | abcnews.go.com
Western Digital announced total drive shipments of 49.5 M, just 400,000 less than Seagate did the day before. Average sales prices (ASP) for WD were up by $3, similar to Seagate results. Strong desktop growth, especially in Asia contributed significantly as well as consumer retail growth, such as external storage products. WD expects component constraints will restrict the supply of HDDs through 2010. Channel inventories are reported less than 2 weeks, extremely low.
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2010 could be great year for hard disk drives
January 22, 2010
Seagate Reports Great Q2 | quicktake.morningstar.com
Seagate Technology announced one of its best quarters in years for calendar Q4 2009, this was the first public report by a HDD company for this quarter. The company said that Q4 2009 total available market (TAM) was about 160 M units and projected calendar 2010 TAM is 650-670 M units. Seagate indicated their capital spending to increase from $450 to $750 M to meet expected demand levels. Unit shipments increased for all product types indicated general health in the HDD industry going into 2010. Inventories are reported to be almost non-existent coming into 2010 and the industry looks like it will be capacity constrained in meeting demand for most of 2010
GLG Study Groups with Thomas Coughlin(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
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| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 16805 |
| Technology Council Members in Member Programs | 8831 |
| Semiconductor & Component Experts | 680 |
| Semiconductor Experts | 579 |
| Semiconductor Experts (North America) | 463 |
GLG Live Meetings with Thomas Coughlin(?)
Recent Seminars
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April 10, 2007 | New York
GLGi: The Future of the Data Storage Market - How Far will Flash Go? -
April 3, 2006 | San Francisco
GLGi: How Consumer Electronics will Change the HDD Market -
March 24, 2006 | New York
GLGi: How Consumer Electronics will Change the HDD Market