has started to produce hard disk media based on perpendicular-magnetic-recording-technology.
Compared with conventional technology that stores magnetic data on a horizontal plane of the media, recording data vertically enables a dramatic increase in recording density.
Targeting the mobile music player market, the company’s first product is a 1.89” diameter disk that can store 40GBytes - double the capacity of conventional products of the same size.
Showa Denko plans to up its hard drive media production by 3.05 million disks per month, to 13.75 million disks per month by March 2006.
The company has also started commercial production of what it says is the world’s smallest 0.85” diameter HD media. Very-small-diameter HD media will soon be used in cellular phones to enable them to store music and TV programs transmitted via the Internet.
IEA report shows nuclear sector booming despite costs
Delays, in the UK, over approval of nuclear, seem to be the major issue (such as for SMRs). The report is about market finance and does not address...