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Seagate recently published its financial results for the latest quarter and, since it was on the subject, it talked a bit about the HDD shortage and how it would go from there.
People may remember that, back in January, 2012, Hitachi said it didn't expect the supply of HDD to fully recover until late this year... |
2 February 2012
03:38 GMT |
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The latest episode of the flooded HDD market saga is now in play, Hitachi being the main character this time.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) estimates that normal HDD supply will take a long time in coming.
Even though all those involved are doing their best to deal with the consequences of the Thai floo... |
14 January 2012
06:53 GMT |
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A combination of global factors is going to significantly encourage shipments of solid state drives throughout the year 2012. The International Data Corporation (IDC) regularly publishes reports and research papers regarding marketing situations and expectations. Its latest announcement deals with the market of so... |
10 January 2012
02:38 GMT |
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Looks like PC makers and those who supply HDDs are at something of an impasse.
With the shortage of hard disk drive units, the latter want to gain some sort of stability by scoring long-term contracts.
This does not sit very well with PC vendors, who want to keep buying units on a quarterly basis.
Their biggest co... |
28 December 2011
05:52 GMT |
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As analysts have already predicted, the problems on the hard disk drive market will cause some rise in SSD demand, so Intel, naturally, means to benefit from this as much as possible.
Indeed, since the company already said it expected $1 billion less from Q4 2012, it plans to turn everything around into an opportun... |
13 December 2011
17:01 GMT |
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The latest in predictions about the Thailand floods has been made, and this one is a fairly bleak forecast regarding the personal computer market.
There will be much lower PC sales in the first three months of next year because of hard disk drive shortage.
Had there not been any floods in Thailand to shut dow... |
10 December 2011
22:01 GMT |
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Companies have been playing a game of back and forth in regards to the status of the HDD market, so it was just a matter of time before the inevitable happened and optimism got replaced with pessimism. Again.
The Thai floods are old news by this point, even though the damage they caused, in terms of human lif... |
29 November 2011
09:34 GMT |
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People may or may not be getting fed up with the constant laments regarding the HDD market, but something so disruptive is bound to get media coverage, so here it is again, another report on the matter.
This time, we aren't saying that HDDs got even more expensive than before. We already saw the 'official... |
28 November 2011
04:59 GMT |
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Troubled times are upon the IT industry, or at least the storage segment, but Kingston thinks at least one type of storage device is in for good things starting next year, 2012.
The solid state drive market could reach its green pastures, so to speak, in about nine or ten months.
Though NAND Flash memory isn'... |
25 November 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Companies may still want to make and sell ultrabooks, but price is no longer the only problem, as something akin to component scarcity is showing its fangs as well.
Once again it becomes clear that lawsuits, regardless of how valid (or how much sense the supposedly infringed patents make) aren't the only way f... |
22 November 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Yet again hard disk drives are being looked at by the media, though this time it seems they are being portrayed in a more promising light than the past month or so. Not that they are in any way suffering from some degradation that reduces their marketing appeal, not in the strict sense. They continue to be the ma... |
22 November 2011
11:12 GMT |
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Having decided to stay in the PC market, HP is subject to the same issues as all others of this cohort, namely component shortages, more precisely the troubles on the HDD market.
Hard disk drives used to be runner ups for our recommendation on what to buy this Christmas, but then they went short.
The flooding in T... |
22 November 2011
09:08 GMT |
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With hard drives skyrocketing in price as their supply dropped, solid state drives are bound to start selling better, but Dell, like mostly everyone else, doesn't see them as very likely to solve the IT industry's problems.
Apparently, solid state drives are still too expensive, and make up too small a pa... |
18 November 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Dell had to get creative when word came in about how, soon enough, there won't be many hard disk drives to go about, but it apparently didn't get away scot-free.
While it was able to act quickly form the start, even before the biggest price jumps came, but the recent conference call with financial analyst... |
17 November 2011
18:01 GMT |
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The past month has not gone without a significant level of attention given to the crisis in Thailand and, as authorities are doing their best to curb the worst of the destruction, each level of the world economy, in this case the IT industry, is dealing with the fallout in its own way.
In this case, the effects of ... |
11 November 2011
04:05 GMT |
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The impending HDD shortage has already caused some disruption worldwide, but Nidec is back online, which means that motors, at least, won't be too big a problem anymore. If people don't know of Nidec very well, it's because, instead of being an HDD supplier or inventor, it makes HDD parts, which mea... |
8 November 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Since the hard drive shortage has been making the news almost constantly, it was obvious that it would start to affect other fields, in this case that of personal computers. There is a significant chance that PCs will be in short supply this December, as well as during the first three months of next year (2012). ... |
7 November 2011
05:16 GMT |
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We already mentioned, repeatedly, that the hard disk drive market was about to smash into a wall, so to speak, and now we have some actual estimates of how badly prices and sales will suffer.
Though it won't be enough to make people switch to SSDs, selling prices of HDDs will go up by 10% before 2011 is over. ... |
3 November 2011
05:37 GMT |
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All the talk about the shortages that the HDD market is going to experience within a couple of months led to speculations about possible SSD sales hikes but, apparently, this won't happen.
Not only do market watchers and analysts think solid state drive (SSD) sales will fail to pick up, but they see a signific... |
3 November 2011
05:12 GMT |
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Even though Intel still has more than 80% of the worldwide central processing unit market, Advanced Micro Devices has been eroding that stake little by little.
In this case, it looks like AMD got its share to grow to 18.8%,which is 0.5% more on-year, even if it fell from the 19.4% of the second quarter.
Then agai... |
2 November 2011
07:00 GMT |
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Since AMD recently had a financial call with analysts, it decided to say a few things about things not directly related to its business, like the the possible HDD shortage.
To provide some context, Thailand has been suffering from severe flooding which, in addition to claiming lives, severely disrupted any and all ... |
28 October 2011
07:36 GMT |
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The flooding problems of the HDD industry are rising and, with them, concerns that hard disk drive units will suffer from severe shortages starting two months or so from now.
We previously spoke of how the hard disk drive market is about to go through a tough period because of flooded factories.
Western Digital, ... |
27 October 2011
09:25 GMT |
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During much of 2009 and 2010, TSMC had such poor 40nm chip yields that both AMD and NVIDIA suffered financially, what with undersupply of products, and it looks like something similar has happened on AMD's 32nm front, though a different party is responsible this time.
Since the month of October, 2011 is almo... |
11 October 2011
03:48 GMT |
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One would think a disaster the magnitude of the one that hit Japan on March 11 would have more long-lasting effects on all aspects of the world economy, but it seems humankind, or in this case the electronics industry, is quick to recover.As the world no doubt remembers, and will keep remembering, an earthquake and ... |
30 June 2011
10:19 GMT |
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Samsung just a short time ago made the official announcement of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, but it looks like the product is going through an episode of partial unavailability much like a certain other slate did and, to a certain extent, still does.
Not too long ago, the long-awaited Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 table... |
18 June 2011
05:45 GMT |
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It looks like yet another report has emerged in support of the rumors going about the web, as to how the smartphone and tablet market segments aren't doing as well as they could in terms of component supply.Even though a bunch of tablets (not counting the iPad) have been officially announced already, a fairly l... |
12 May 2011
09:00 GMT |
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The massive earthquake and tidal waves that struck Japan back in March were bound to make their effect felt on the IT industry, and it looks like PC and phones are turning into exhibit A.The thing about large-scale disasters is that they have a tendency of crippling the entire infrastructure of a nation and even aff... |
7 May 2011
07:14 GMT |
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Apparently, all the chatter regarding the immediate sell-out of a certain ASUS tablet became wild and intense enough that the company itself, reports say, had to step in and offer some clarification.Users looking for a tablet will likely have learned of all the speculation regarding the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer and ... |
6 May 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Tablets may be looking as though their sales can only go up, but it might be that fate has something to say about it or, more specifically, about the availability of parts needed to make them.For a certain sort of product to suffer form supply shortages is not really a new occurrence, but when something of this sort... |
29 April 2011
05:00 GMT |
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Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has just revealed how the company managed to sell almost 400,000 units of its new 3DS handheld while avoiding shortages or sellouts in North America.
The sales data for the gaming industry during the month of March were posted by the NPD Group at the end of last week, show... |
19 April 2011
02:30 GMT |
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Acer may be doing its best, like everyone else, to perform well on the tablet market, but it also seems to have some concerns regarding certain difficulties that this segment will probably experience this year.One thing about the tablet market is that it has grown very fast ever since the first iPad came out of Appl... |
7 April 2011
05:29 GMT |
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Hard disk drives have long stayed ahead of solid state drives primarily thanks to their prices, besides their high capacities, but it looks like the former asset might just loose some relevance in the wake of a certain disaster.For many years now, hard disk drives have been the primary means of giving storage space ... |
1 April 2011
10:53 GMT |
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Until recently, the big concern on the memory market was that demand would not pick up fast enough, but it looks like worries have dramatically changed after recent events, particularly a certain natural disaster.The past several months have seen the memory chip market going through a very unfortunate phenomenon, as... |
25 March 2011
11:26 GMT |
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As one would expect, the massive natural disaster in Japan is proving to have far-reaching consequences, not just in terms of casualties but also as far as the world economy goes, in this case the semiconductor market.No doubt people around the world have already heard of the massive earthquake that struck Japan a f... |
14 March 2011
02:05 GMT |
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It would appear that recent events on the IT market have created conditions that placed Advanced Micro Devices in the position where it can't meet APU demand, so it seems it increased orders with TSMC for APUs.End-users that have been following the news will know that, last month, both Intel and Advanced Micro ... |
22 February 2011
05:49 GMT |
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It appears that things may be getting a bit complicated up ahead for the LCD market, as certain makers of LCD panels are worried they may not be able to keep up with the possible demand surge in March and beyond.Like other IT industry fields, the liquid crystal display panel segment seems to be in for possibly troub... |
17 January 2011
10:10 GMT |
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While tablets are giving PC makers a hard time, since sales of computers are dwindling, it seems that another market will suffer because of them, that of displays, only in a very different way.As tablets keep selling, especially now that more models have been launched, PC's have been losing share and failing to... |
14 January 2011
08:58 GMT |
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For the most part of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) had serious problems when it came to supplying AMD and NVIDIA with chips based on the 40nm manufacturing process technology. Then, some time ago, the foundry announced that it had finally gotten over the issues... |
1 July 2010
10:54 GMT |
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Intel was, for a while, the only company with a consumer-oriented six-core central processing unit on sale. After that, Advanced Micro Devices finally managed to complete it own such CPUs, dubbed Thuban. These chips did not exactly intend to overthrow the Gulftown in terms of performance, but they did have a signific... |
15 June 2010
06:48 GMT |
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It appears that TSMC's dismal yields of 40nm GPUs during 2009 are starting to have stranger and stranger effects, even now, after supply of such processors has started to improve. In AMD's case, certain tactics meant to boost its profits have now ended up backfiring, as demand for chipset grows. To be more ... |
18 May 2010
10:48 GMT |
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Last week, it was revealed that the high demand for 32nm central processors had pushed Intel into a position where it could no longer manage to meet orders, because it no longer had enough CPU on hand. This occurred because demand was unexpectedly high during a period usually known as the slow season. On the other ha... |
18 May 2010
08:31 GMT |
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Though being too good for one's own good doesn't happen very often, Intel seems to be going through this very type of situation with its 32nm central processing units. Being central processors with not just high computing power and efficiency but also on-die graphics, the Arrandale and Clarkdale chips have ... |
28 April 2010
06:01 GMT |
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Now that the first financial quarter of the year is over, companies are taking turns publishing their financial results. Unlike last year, it seems that most players are doing better, to the point where they reached significant on-year increases in revenues and shipments. Transcend is no exception and appears to be b... |
24 April 2010
06:28 GMT |
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A designer for a firm wishing to remain anonymous reportedly told TG Daily that Asian suppliers were experiencing 10.1-inch OLED, LED display shortages. In an obvious scenario, the news has turned everyone’s attention to Apple, the Cupertino-based electronics and software maker rumored to finally prepare the in... |
12 January 2010
09:48 GMT |
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For quite a few months now, various manufacturing-related issues have been reported concerning TSMC's total yields of the 40nm process. Back in late October, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company stated that the issues related to the 40nm process manufacture would be resolved by the end of December. Now... |
4 December 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Those who fear that Sprint's stores might sell out the highly anticipated Palm Pre and not receive another shipment of the device for a few days should hold their horses a little bit it seems, as the latest reports on the Web point towards the fact that the carrier plans to send new handsets to its stores each d... |
2 June 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Sprint will start selling the highly anticipated Palm Pre as soon as this Saturday, June 6, and, though there are four days until the official launch, we learn that one enthusiast already camped in front of a Sprint store, in an attempt not only to make sure that he would receive his Pre, but also th... |
2 June 2009
02:44 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the web, those that would like to purchase the upcoming Palm Pre without committing to a new contract agreement with Sprint, the carrier that will release the device exclusively in the US, will be able to have it for $549.99, which does not sound too bad when compared with the price ta... |
21 May 2009
06:20 GMT |
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Palm's Pre mobile phone is one of the most anticipated devices of the year, and it seems that this might become a problem for the handset maker when it will launch it on Sprint's airwaves, at least this is what some analysts tend to believe. To be more precise, Palm is expected to have only a number of 375,... |
30 April 2009
06:50 GMT |
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Direct consumption and agricultural uses of water, together with other industrial purposes, have recently become more and more worrying in quantitative terms. While people generally worry they will eventually come to lack food, in fact the water that provides it should be their main source of concern.Many millennia h... |
22 September 2008
07:31 GMT |
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