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Monday, 18 April 2005 |
Samsung Plans
Miniature Hard Disk
PC World -
USA
Drive for digital music players and cell phones measures 0.85 inch, has a
4GB capacity.
Samsung Electronics is planning to enter the competitive miniature hard-disk
drive market later this year, an executive at its semiconductor unit said on
Friday.
The company's first product will have a storage capacity of 4 GB and will be
available later this year, said Kim Il Ung, vice president of Samsung
Electronics' semiconductor business, in a conference call with analysts.
Kim didn't provide any other details of the product but Park Sung Hae, a Samsung
Electronics spokeswoman, said on Monday that the drive will be an 0.85-inch type
and be available from the third quarter of this year.
Tiny Drives for Tiny Gadgets
That drive will put Samsung Electronics head-to-head with Toshiba, which is
currently the only company that has a 0.85-inch drive on the market. Toshiba's
current 0.85-inch drive offers a 2GB capacity and the company said last week
that it will have a 4GB version available in the middle of this year.
Competing products are all based on 1-inch drive platters that offer more
storage capacity but are physically larger. In devices such as music players,
the slight size difference might not be particularly important, but in products
where a higher premium is attached to size, such as cell phones, the difference
could be valuable.
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