by John Chen | Jan 20, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
While Seagate has been shipping HDDs with shingle magnetic recording (SMR) for a number of years in its external HDD products, 2016 is shaping up to be the year when the industry as a whole announces and ships mainstream OEM HDDs using the capacity boosting...
by John Chen | Nov 18, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
The short answer right now is, “not yet”. However before you conclude that this is an obvious statement, it is a conclusion that is loaded with contextual circumstances. To expect a tablet, which is based on a touch-based interface, to easily replace a mouse and a...
by John Chen | Oct 26, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Tsinghua Holdings, parent company of Unisplendour and Tsinghua Unigroup is also the business affiliate of one of China’s top universities and is state owned. The WDC investment follows Unisplendour’s $2.3 billion, 51% controlling stake of HP’s Chinese server division,...
by John Chen | Sep 10, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
A widely accepted position in the HDD industry is that demand for capacity enterprise (nearline) HDDs is driven by large hyperscale companies, typified by cloud service providers (CSPs) and “as-a-service”, or XaaS datacenter companies. What is difficult to read is the...
by John Chen | Jul 21, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
By now, it is no surprise that the HDD market has suffered at the hands of very weak demand for PCs. Compounding the lack of consumer PC purchasing is a major transition in Windows OS, with Windows 10 releasing on July 29. No OEM in its right mind wants to blow out...
