News Release from: SDK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 26 April 2004
Data Storage Institute helps with media research
SDK has concluded a master R and D agreement with Data Storage Institute (DSI) of Singapore to jointly develop advanced technologies for next-generation hard disk media.
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SDK has concluded a master R and D agreement with Data Storage Institute (DSI) of Singapore to jointly develop advanced technologies for next-generation hard disk media. DSI is a national research institute under Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research, focusing on development of advanced technologies for magnetic, optical and network storage. Under the three-year agreement, SDK and its subsidiary Showa Denko HD Singapore (SHDS) will work closely with DSI to develop new technologies required for HD media that will be placed on the market in the coming three to five years.
The joint R and D work will also help train researchers and engineers who will support the future growth of SHDS.
DSI established its media R and D programme in 1998 to support the growing hard disk media industry in Singapore.
The core capabilities developed were advanced magnetic thin film technology for both longitudinal and perpendicular media.
DSI and SDK earlier jointly worked on process development R and D and will further co-operate closely under the master agreement to create high-value technologies for mutual interest.
SDK now has the capability to supply 8.3 million hard disks a month, the largest in the world as an independent vendor.
Furthermore, SDK is the only independent vendor in the world that can provide both glass- and aluminium-substrate hard disks in commercial quantities.
At SHDS, capacity was expanded by one million disks a month at the end of last year to meet growing demand for hard disks for use in PCs, car navigation systems and MP3 players.
SHDS's current capacity (3.1 million disks a month) is being fully used, producing 3.0 and 3.5in aluminium-substrate hard disks and 2.5in glass-substrate hard disks.
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