“Hitachi Ltd, Japan’s biggest electronics conglomerate, plans to exit the business of making small hard disk drives as demand shifts to flash memory chips, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday,” Reuters reports.
“Hitachi’s hard drive unit, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc, has already stopped production of 1-inch hard drives and plans to stop shipping 1.8-inch drives around next summer, the newspaper said,” Reuters reports.
“The Nikkei also said Hitachi rival Fujitsu Ltd. has given up on plans to enter the market for small drives. Fujitsu had been developing 1.8-inch drives with U.S.-based Cornice with plans to bring a product to market in 2007,” Reuters reports.
“Small hard drives are increasingly being replaced by flash memory chips as the memory storage device in video cameras and portable music players, such as Apple Inc’s popular iPod, as flash memory capacity improves and prices come down,” Reuters reports.
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Well you can only make a hard drive so small.
That’s not what your ex-girlfriend said.
You don’t need a feedbag if your vehicle runs on gasoline instead of oats.
The boat sails at midnight.
If my grandma had wheels, she’d be a wagon.
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
Michael Stipe “borrowed” that from Dan Rather
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Dan Rather got hit in the head with a brick
A wet bird never flies at night.
My dingle is a dongle.
A watched egg never boils.
Wait…
Gumball
Can’t fly without an umbrella.
If I medicined you, you’d think a brain tumour was a birthday present…
Confuscious he say; do not eat yellow snow
Where there are spokes, there are tires.
Very, very foolish words, man.
If it happens, it must be possible.
What does the color Nine smell like?
I can never touch meat until it’s cooked. As a youth I used to weep in butchers’ shops.
The chair is against the wall.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
Wherever you’ve been, there you were.
Mauve has more RAM
If you fart in church, you’ll get your own pew.