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Hitachi Unveils 2TB SimpleDrive External Drive

Capacity is what drives the traditional hard drive market and storage solution vendors continue to deliver new products that provide users with support for larger amounts of data. On that note, Hitachi GST (Global Storage Technologies) announced today the availability of the newly designed SimpleDrive, an external h...

16 November 2009
09:55 GMT

Hitachi Offers Three New External Drives for the EMEA Markets

Hitachi has just announced the expansion of its line of portable hard drives with the addition of three new models, targeted at customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Designed to meet the requirements of road warriors, prosumers and SOHO users, the new drives offer a choice for portability, high-capacity...

27 October 2009
07:15 GMT

Hitachi Rolls Out Enterprise-Oriented 2.5-Inch and 3.5-Inch Hard Drives

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, one of the world's leading vendors of high-performance hard-disk drives, has announced today the expansion of its line of Ultrastar hard drives for enterprise storage applications. The company has just introduced two new 15,000RPM Ultrastar hard drives for Tier 0/1, mission-c...

13 October 2009
05:37 GMT

Hitachi Unveils New CinemaStar 1TB Hard Drives

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) has just announced the introduction of its new line of CinemaStar hard drives, designed to provide consumers with higher capacity models, delivering an increase of storage space. The new series is built on the 500GB-per-platter technology and includes the CinemaStar 7K1000.C,...

10 September 2009
08:25 GMT

Hitachi Rolls Out New NAS Platfom for Midrange Segment

Hitachi Data Systems announced today the expansion of its Network Attached Storage Platform, powered by BlueArc, with the introduction of two new solutions designed to deliver performance, scalability and management for the midrange segment. The company's new NAS 3080 and 3090 solutions have been endowed with th...

8 September 2009
09:18 GMT

Hitachi Intros Faster 500GB Hard Drive for Notebooks

The storage market continues to evolve as technology enables companies to roll out new products that deliver increased performance and better power consumption, all within an affordable package. On that note, Hitachi GST has announced today the launch of its fifth-generation 7200RPM mobile hard disk drive. Coming in ...

1 September 2009
04:05 GMT

Hitachi Unveils Robust and Reliable Green Data Center

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced today the opening of its green data center in Yokohama, Japan, which the company claims to be one of the most robust and reliable in the industry, occupying 10,000 square meters of total floor space. In addition, according to Hitachi, the newly opened Yokohama Third Cent...

24 August 2009
11:18 GMT

Hitachi Unleashes the World's First 2TB 7200RPM Hard Drive

Hitachi, one of the world's leading vendors of storage products, has announced today the launch of its latest Deskstar hard disk drive, coming as the world's first 2TB 7200RPM hard disk drive. Joining leading industry players like Seagate and Western Digital, Hitachi is now shipping its high-capacity HDDs, ...

6 August 2009
03:57 GMT

NEC and Hitachi Withdraw from Japan's Supercomputer Initiative

IT companies NEC and Hitachi delivered a devastating blow to Japan's attempt at building the largest supercomputer in the world. The future machine, scheduled to begin operations next year, and to be completed by 2012, would have computed its data with both vector and scalar processors. If the initiative had bee...

21 May 2009
06:53 GMT

Hitachi Announces New Nehalem-Based BladeSymphony Servers

Hitachi, a world leading vendor of computer server systems, has just announced the introduction of a new line of blade servers that have been specifically designed to provide a high level of performance, while also helping companies meet their carbon reduction targets. The new systems, part of the company's Blad...

18 May 2009
10:47 GMT

iPhone App Lets You Draw and Find Similar Images on the Web

Hitachi, Ltd. has released what is probably the most useful free app for people who use the web to look up imagery on a regular basis. GazoPa for iPhone allows users to search for similar images on the web by uploading their own photos. They can even try and get pictures they have seen in the past by actually drawing...

16 April 2009
06:55 GMT

Hitachi Intros Its First SAS-Enabled Ultrastar Drive

The storage division of Hitachi, known as the Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, has recently announced that its small form factor enterprise series of hard drives has reached the second generation. With the announcement, the company has introduced the new 10,000RPM Ultrastar C10K300 hard drive, designed for optimi...

25 March 2009
10:08 GMT

Hitachi GST to Acquire Fabrik and Expand External Storage Portfolio

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has recently announced that it has agreed to acquire Fabrik Inc, a supplier of personal and professional storage solutions. With the acquisition, Hitachi has basically consolidated its position in the market for external storage solutions, as it now owns leading storage brands such...

24 February 2009
05:35 GMT

Hitachi GST Announces New 500GB Hard for Digital Video and Surveillance

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has recently introduced a new hard disk drive to its lineup, in the form of the CinemaStar C5K500, a 2.5-inch hard drive that is set to provide up to 500GB of storage space. The new hard drive from Hitachi has been specifically designed to meet the requirements of digital video and...

5 February 2009
06:02 GMT

Hitachi Posts Q3 Loss, Announces New CEO for the Americas

Japan's biggest electronics maker, Hitachi, has just announced its quarterly financial results, with a recorded net loss of 371 billion yen (approximately $4.13 billion), for the October-December quarter. In light of the new numbers, the company has also reaffirmed its forecast for the annual financial results, ...

3 February 2009
11:19 GMT

Hitachi WOO Ketai H001 Comes with 3D Display

The latest high-tech and feature-rich mobile phone that should get launched on the Japanese market is the Hitachi-branded AU phone by KDDI Japanese cellular services dubbed WOO Ketai H001. The most impressive feature of this handset can be considered its 3D display, which can deliver games, photos and videos using th...

30 January 2009
04:41 GMT

Hitachi Expands Support for Flash-Based SSD Technology

As the market for flash-based storage products continues to grow, more companies rally themselves to further expand the support for Solid State Drives adoption. On that note, Hitachi, one of the world's leading storage manufacturers, announced today the general availability of flash-based solid state drives for ...

15 December 2008
10:38 GMT

Intel and Hitachi Join Hands for SSDs

Intel and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced a partnership to “jointly develop and deliver” Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Fibre Channel (FC) solid-state drives (SSDs) for servers, workstations, and storage systems. The two companies made the announcement regarding the association on Monday nig...

2 December 2008
03:18 GMT

Hitachi Also Delivers 2.5-Inch 500GB HDDs with ‘Green’ Features

This day appears seems to be a “storage day” of sorts, as Hitachi has just introduced its new 2.5-inch 500GB hard disk drive, following the official announcement from competitor Fujitsu. As with the new drives from Fujitsu, Hitachi's latest 500GB 2.5-inch HDDs have also been equipped with d...

11 November 2008
06:13 GMT

Prototype Hitachi Camcorder Streams HD Video to HDTV – No Wires Involved

The CEATEC show in Japan is in full swing as we speak, and even if the number of actual product announcements is lower than in the case of CEDIA or IFA, we're seeing a lot more interesting and highly innovative prototypes take central stage. And one such innovation comes from Hitachi, who's showcasing a cam...

3 October 2008
16:21 GMT

Hitachi's New 15mm Thin, 37-inch Wide LCD Is 150 Percent Better than HDTV

As some of you might remember from our CEDIA and CES coverages, Japanese company Hitachi announced back at the beginning of 2008 its UltraThin line of LCD HDTVs, which features a width of just 1.5 inches (3.87 cm). Nevertheless, it seems that Hitachi has decided to up the ante right on its home turf and showcased at ...

1 October 2008
04:29 GMT

Hitachi Touts New Upconversion Technology That Goes Above HDTV

"Upconversion" is an extremely popular concept nowadays, as it allows users to enjoy an almost HD-grade cinematographic experience without actually using an HD signal source (such as a Blu-ray player). Several of the most important names on the consumer electronics market have already rolled out products embedding su...

26 September 2008
13:51 GMT

CEDIA 2008: Hitachi Presents 50-Inch UltraThin Plasma Display, Other Advanced Models

Like most other major manufacturers of high-definition display solutions, Hitachi is playing on both fronts, namely it's developing both LCDs and plasma displays. After you've seen what its LCDs are all about, it's time to take a look into the PDP segment, where the Japanese company has some pretty int...

5 September 2008
08:17 GMT

CEDIA 2008: Hitachi Showcases Full UltraThin 1.5 Series of LCD HDTVs

Back at CES 2008, Hitachi launched its UltraThin line of high-definition LCD TVs, which had been announced since the second half of 2007. However, since then, this series grew to include more models, so the Japanese company used CEDIA as the perfect platform to present the whole line of devices gathered in just one p...

5 September 2008
04:50 GMT

Hitachi Unveils Full HD, Three Format Hybrid Blu-ray Camcorder

Since Blu-ray has officially won the format war earlier this year and camcorders capable of recording onto optical media are not exactly a great novelty, Hitachi has decided to put two and two together and launched its DZ-BD10HA Blu-ray Disc Hybrid Camcorder, a device capable of recording high-quality videos directly...

12 August 2008
02:23 GMT

E Ink Technology Embraced by Japanese Handsets

E Ink, a leading company in electronic paper display technologies, announced that the Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications joint venture has chosen the E Ink Vizplex Imaging Film based displays to be integrated into its new handsets. The very-first mobile phone to use an E Ink Vizplex display is already on the market...

24 July 2008
06:06 GMT

With SSD Future Uncertain, 5TB HDDs Could Revolutionize the Storage Industry

For the past few days everybody has been talking about the future of storage, with Solid State Drives replacing current magnetic hard drives. But some recent news, which has surfaced thanks to Tom's Hardware, has put this future in a light of uncertainty. It seems that SSDs aren't all everybody expects them...

3 July 2008
04:59 GMT

Wooo W62H from Hitachi Announced

Hitachi, one of the largest Japanese companies in terms of employee number (more than 380,000), recently released a new mobile phone, the Wooo W62H. The new Wooo handset comes after the W61H model, which has, besides a normal display, an e-ink one that allows users to personalize its look with 95 pre-set graphic pa...

9 June 2008
07:58 GMT

Hitachi Introduces 320 GB TravelStar 7K320 Drive at 7,200 RPM

Storage specialist Hitachi has introduced a new notebook hard disk drive that packs 320GB of storage space in a 2.5-inch form factor. While the storage performance is not out of the ordinary, the new drive from Hitachi spins at 7.200 rotations per minute, just like an average desktop hard disk drive. 7,200 RPM 2.5-in...

7 May 2008
09:33 GMT

Hitachi Announces 6Gb/s End-to-End SAS Products

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and PMC-Sierra have jointly announced the complete integration of PMC-Sierra's end-to-end Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 6Gb/s chipsets and Hitachi's SAS 6Gb/s prototype hard-disk drives. "PMC-Sierra is committed to ensuring full interoperability with 6Gb/s components to redu...

5 May 2008
10:56 GMT

Hitachi Cancels its Exit From HDD Market, Starts Consolidating its Business

Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has announced that it dropped its plans of exiting from the hard-disk drive business, and is now gearing up to make a comeback by cutting down on production costs. The news was broken by Hitachi's storage division head during yesterday's conference.Hitachi's decision is so...

17 April 2008
04:10 GMT

Hitachi Unveils Enterprise-Class 15,000 RPM 450 GB Drive

Hitachi has just announced its Ultrastar 15K450 hard-disk drive that packs 450 GB of storage space using perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. It's true that such capacities are no longer new, since other companies ship 1 TB disk drives, but Hitachi's 450 GB offering spins at 15,000 rotations p...

16 April 2008
10:49 GMT

Hitachi Buys Majority Stake in ID Management Vendor

On Monday, Hitachi announced it had bought a majority stake interest in M-Tech Information Technology, a password management software vendor, in the idea of expanding its own line of products for identity management. Hitachi already has an important role in the ID management products market. The authentication produc...

9 April 2008
10:42 GMT

IBM, Hitachi Team Up for 32-Nanometer Node Research

IBM and Hitachi have jointly announced their first-ever partnership for researching the next chip technology for 32-nanometer semiconductors. According to the company officials, IBM and Hitachi will use brand new technologies that would allow them to improve the measurements in the transistor variations.The two compa...

10 March 2008
12:30 GMT

The New Obsession: Hitachi to Unveil Computer Headset that Read Users' Minds

It seems that you can run, but you can't hide from the sharp claws of the modern technology, and continuous research is about to open the doors for computers even inside your mind. The picture is frightening similar to the science-fiction apocalypse: beloved audience, the human-machine interface is here!At the m...

29 February 2008
07:04 GMT

Canon Acquires a Quarter of Hitachi's LCD Business

Hitachi has announced that it has inked a purchase agreement with its former rival company Canon that will lead to a LCD panel business alliance. Hitachi has previously sold an important part of its Display Unit shares to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. who manufactures LCD TVs under the Panasonic brand.The agreem...

28 February 2008
06:55 GMT

Hitachi to Release 320 GB Notebook Hard-Disk Drive

Hitachi has just announced the availability of its new 320GB notebook hard-disk drive in its TravelStar family. Despite the launch, the company is still way behind its heavy-weigh competitors such as Toshiba, Western Digital, Fujitsu and Seagate, that have previously released 320 GB versions and now they're comp...

26 February 2008
11:12 GMT

Hitachi Sells 8-Inch Fab to Chartered Semiconductor

Chartered Semiconductor has just announced having signed an agreement with Hitachi regarding the buyout of its 8-inch fab in Singapore for $233 million. The purchase is meant to expand Chartered's production capacity for eight-inch wafer semiconductors.The agreement between Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing ...

15 February 2008
08:16 GMT

Hitachi, Phoenix, Shake Hands over Remote Data Protection

Hitachi and Phoenix Technologies today announced that they have joined forces in order to deliver next-generation mobile PC security on notebooks equipped with Hitachi hard-disk drives. The upcoming laptops will feature the Phoenix FailSafe theft-deterrence service that will allow their owners to track, disable and s...

4 February 2008
11:48 GMT

Hitachi W61H With E-ink Display for a Great Look

Hitachi, the giant Japanese manufacturer and service provider, unveiled its latest mobile phone, Hitachi W61H, a handset that comes to emphasize the company's slogan, "Inspire the Next", with its e-ink display and its exquisite look. Hitachi W61H is a clamshell phone with two displays, a normal one and an e-ink ...

31 January 2008
03:15 GMT

Western Digital to Raise the Stake: 320GB Per Platter

The storage market is somewhat similar to the DRAM battlefield and can be translated into a single sentence: "you're late, you're dead". No wonder that the industry titans are in a continuous battle for the largest and cheapest hard disk drives. As if it were not enough, there's the new and shiny solid...

24 January 2008
06:54 GMT

Hitachi to Join Toshiba, Fujitsu for HDD Company

Hitachi, the Japanese giant has started talks with Toshiba and Fujitsu about forming a new company to produce hard disk drives and storage systems. This is quite a surprise, since Hitachi is about to sell its own hard-drive business, and the eternal rivalry between the three companies are highly unlikely to bring som...

12 January 2008
03:40 GMT

CES 2008: Forget Hitachi, Samsung's 500GB 2.5-Inch Drive Has Arrived

Samsung has announced their new line of 2.5-inch form factor notebook HDD to store 500 GB of data. The announcement comes only three days later after Hitachi unveiled industry's first 500GB 2.5-inch hard drive. At the moment, the largest notebook hard-disk drive is a 320 GB model manufactured by Western Digital....

7 January 2008
03:22 GMT

Hitachi to Release 500GB TravelStar for Notebooks

The Japanese storage expert Hitachi is full of surprises at this time of the year. After a series of reports claiming that things are far from normal with its storage business, the company has announced a new 500GB 2.5-inch hard drive.The TravelStar disk comes in two flavors: the standard 5K500 is designed for lapto...

3 January 2008
06:05 GMT

Hitachi, Fujitsu to Run Away From Miniature HDD Business

Japanese storage solution provider Hitachi Global Storage has officially shut down production of 1-inch hard drives, and considers to terminate the 1.8-inch hard drives line as well. The miniature hard-disks were used in digital music players and video cameras, and lost a considerable amount of market with the adven...

3 January 2008
04:58 GMT

Canon, Matsushita and Hitachi Strike Billions Out Of LCD Business

LCD panels are present everywhere, from the portable gaming systems and cell phones to the wide display in the living room or the huge billboards on the American skyscrapers. The demand is so high that more and more manufacturers emerge in this sector and powerful alliances are continually forming to defend their sup...

28 December 2007
04:35 GMT

Christmas Surprise: Hitachi, Canon and Matsushita Join Forces!

The LCD panels' market seems to be the hottest point of interest for the most important names in the CE industry these days and we're witnessing what could be very well history being written, as the major players in this field are teaming up, presumably to counter Samsung's iron-fisted market dominance...

26 December 2007
01:12 GMT

Samsung and Hitachi to Shake Hands for HDD Patents

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has agreed with Hitachi to exchange technology licenses to include their hard-disk drive patents. The deal has been filled with the Korean Exchange, and the agreement with Hitachi covers technology patented by both Hitachi and IBM (as the Japanese electronics conglomerate bo...

21 December 2007
08:25 GMT

Hitachi to Consider 'All Options' on Its Hard-Disk Business

Hitachi, Japan's biggest electronics conglomerate, is rumored to think of selling its hard-disk manufacturing units. Recent news emerging from the hard-disk manufacturer says that Hitachi is currently in talks with U.S. private equity firm Silver Lake about the possibility of selling it a stake in its hard drive...

21 December 2007
04:41 GMT

Hitachi's CP-X417 Projector Boasts 3000-Lumen Brightness, Wireless Connectivity

Wireless projectors (namely, digital projectors with built-in wireless modules) are extremely useful devices, since they can be controlled from a distance, thus making presentation setups a lot easier. And the latest info regarding such a product comes from Hitachi, who has just announced the availability of the CP-X...

11 December 2007
03:06 GMT


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