GLG News by Personal Video Recorder Experts

Soon, there will a paradigm shift in storage.  This shift is as much driven by economics as by technological developments.  The uses of large storage in some devices will become prevalent and change our view of memory forever.

* TDK is the last independent HDD head supplier. * In order to remain competitive to vertically integrated HDD companies TDK must push magnetic recording technology.  * At the CEATEC conference in Taiwan TDK announced technology with a magnetic recording areal density of 803 Gbpsi.  *...

Vendors will continue to support Circuit until at least the first part of December Companies will watch carefully the weekly trends over the next 45 days Vendors can easily create a "run on the bank" if one or two large suppliers change their terms significantly 

* Hoya is a major manufacturer of glass and supplies many of the glass substrates used in mobile hard disk drives.  * In addition to substrates Hoya manufactures some hard disk media as well.  * Showa Denko has been a customer of Hoya for media substrates and is the largest...

* Fujitsu is the sixth in unit shipping volume of HDD companies making 2.5-inch drives for notebook, consumer and enterprise applications.  * Fujitsu is one of the oldest companies in the HDD business and has been responsible for much technology innovation in the industry.  * Reports abound...

Despite the gloom and doom of the marketplace, there are bright moments.   If you notice, each one of the winners is practical and viable.

Up until the latest economic scare, it looked as if Nortel may have found some suitors for the Metro Ethernet business.  

The timeline is a good indicator of the struggle to get WiMAX off the ground.  Hopefully, Sprint will find a buyer for its Nextel business and then they can plow the cash into WiMAX

I congratulate Ralph de la Vega.  It is not exactly what I had suggested in my article; “AT&T Spending Money On Wireless – I Have Another Suggestion”, but its close enough.

Given the current economy is the debate of LTE versus WiMAX even relevant?   I think the answer is yes.  The 4G technology decision is relevant to all carriers.