Gizmodo: tdk

TDK Crams 260GB into 1.8-inch HDD, Sets A New Density Benchmark

Adrian Covert — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:00:00 EDT

TDK has announced a new hard drive at CEATEC that manages to fit 260GB of data into a 1.8-inch form factor. Using their prototype TMR head, TDK is able to attain a surface recording density of 803 gigabits per square inch, besting Toshiba's previous 378 gigabits per square inch. The leap was made possible by combining the TMR head with recent perpendicular magnetic recording techniques, and TDK personnel still think it's possible to reach 1 terabit per square inch. [Techon Nikkei via SlashGear]

Wal-Mart Makes the Push for $299 HD DVD Machines

Louis Ramirez — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:40:56 EDT

Rumor on the interwebs has it that Wal-Mart is about to bring HD DVD to the masses. The retail giant we all love to hate just bought 2 million HD DVD units from Taiwanese electronics corp Fuh Yuan, who along with TDK recently built a massive factory to handle HD DVD cores.

What does Wal-Mart have in store for us? Well, people are speculating that with this many HD DVD players in their hands, Wal-Mart is gonna sell them to consumers at a hefty discount, specifically $300 each. Sadly, this probably won't put an end to the format wars, but it'll definitely come as a blow to the Blu-ray camp, especially since their cheapest machine is nowhere near $300. You can expect to see Wal-Mart's players sometime in 2008. – Louis Ramirez

Fuh Yuan Will Make Two Million HD DVD Players for Wal-Mart [AVS Forums]

Intel Releases NAND Disk, Fails To Get The Point Completely

www.gizmodo.com — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:39:04 EDT

Intel has just released a flash NAND drive following the steps of Samsung, SanDisk and TDK, but in a very lame, half-assed way. Rather than implementing a fast hard drive using a Serial, Ultra or even plain ATA interface, Intel has chosen to build it around, you guessed it, USB 2.0.

So forget about dropping it in your laptop any time soon, although given the specs, I wouldn't even want this in my mother-in-law MacBook: Intel says that their 8 Gbytes Z-U130 is going to reach 20 Mbytes per second transfer rates, whereas the competition is offering already 32 GBytes at 62 Mbytes per second. It just doesn't get sadder than that, really. Hopefuly, Apple won't be using them for their rumored sub-notebook.–Jesus Diaz

Intel Reveals Solid State Flash Drives [Daily Tech via Xinhua Online]

TDK Shows 32GB Flash Memory Drive for Notebooks

Charlie White — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:02:14 EDT

Samsung commanded our undivided attention when it announced its 32GB flash drive, and now TDK rolls out its interpretation of a 32GB NAND flash memory drive. This one hooks up to a standard IDE connector and fits easily into a notebook with room to spare; the drive's just 80% the size of a regular garden-variety 2.5-inch hard disk.

Better yet, it uses less power, even while moving data along at a snappy 33.3MB per second. We're happy to predict that it won't be long now until moving parts are completely eliminated inside laptops, desktops soon thereafter, and not a moment too soon. Bring it on. – Charlie White

TDK samples 32GB Flash disk [Reg Hardware, via CrunchGear]

TDK Makes 200GB Blu-ray Discs, Too Bad Nobody Can Play Them

Jason Chen — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:00:52 EDT

Yes, TDK, who said they were going to make 200GB discs, went and made 200GB discs. Who'da thunk it? Well, unfortunately for everyone on the planet, there isn't any drive or player out right now that can read 200GB discs. Oh well.

The 200GB monster is single sided, but has six layers with 33.333333333 (continuing) GB on each layer. First 100GB discs, now 200GB discs. What's next, TDK? Are you going to blow our minds with, wait for it, THREE HUNDRED GIGABYTE DISCS? OMG. – Jason Chen

TDK Unveils 200 GB Blu-Ray Media [Digital Trends]

TDK To Develop 200GB Blu-ray Disc

Charlie White — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:42:07 EDT

TDK confirmed that it's working on a 200GB Blu-ray disc—that's four times the capacity of the largest first-generation dual-layer Blu-ray blanks that are just about to be released worldwide. TDK already showed a next-generation four-layer Blu-ray disc with 100GB of storage in May of last year.

No target date was given for the release of these larger-capacity discs, but the announcement does remind us of one thing: this Blu-ray format can scale up to some mind-boggling capacities. Impressive. You could back up your entire hard drive on one of these things.

TDK working on 200GB Blu-ray disc [TechDigest]

Bendy Microprocessor on Plastic

tgrumet — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:19:19 EST

Not much other then a report right now, but it looks like TDK has teamed up with Japanese Semiconductor Energy Laboratory to make a bendable microprocessor. The transistors will be made on glass first, then transferred to plastic. The processor will also have wireless capabilities and built-in signal encryption.

Firm makes bent CPU [The Inquirer]

TDK Launches Bare Blu-ray Sample Discs

tgrumet — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:16:14 EST

Looks like we're one step closer to Blu-ray. For the first time, TKD has announced that it's shipping mass-produced samples of Blu-ray, bare-type, cartridge-less discs. In BED-R (write-once type ) and BED-RE (rewritable type), these discs come with 25GB on a Single-Layer and 50GB on a Dual-Layer, with a recording speed of 2x. They will also be coated with TDK's DURABIS 2 hard coating, specially formulated for Blu-ray discs to keep them clean and scratch-resistent. The discs come in four variants—25 GB (Single layer, Write once / Rewritable disks) and 50 Gb (Dual layer, Write once / Rewritable disks).

TDK Starts Shipping "Bare" Type Mass-Production Blu-ray Disc Samples [New Launches]