HDD and Solid State Drive (SSD) Industry Analysis And Processing Trends

Hard drives have delivered remarkable advances in capacity, reliability and cost, but until now those advances have been primarily directed at traditional computing applications. The consumer electronics market is ripe for widespread implementation of hard drives to boost storage capacity and deliver rapid and random access to audio, video and gaming content. The different needs of consumer devices will challenge hard-drive makers to develop innovative solutions that balance capacity, power consumption, reliability and other performance issues to best fit the application at an acceptable cost in a highly competitive industry. Hard drive electronics can play an essential part in meeting these needs by providing advanced capabilities that offer drive makers more design options and flexibility in smaller, power efficient chips and through system-on-a-chip integration. This new report focuses on the entire HDD/SSD market supply chain, analyzing the markets for HDD and SSD drives, substrates, and thin film heads. Processing issues in the manufacture of each of these sectors in included and the report details the CMP and Lithography sectors of thin film head processing. Market forecasts of all sectors are detailed. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: The Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and Solid State Drive (SSD) Industries: Market Analysis And Processing Trends.