December 31, 2002
IBM announced it has completed an agreement to combine its hard disk drive operations with Hitachi's, forming a new company called Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
December 20, 2002
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that its 64KB smart card with crypto functions, product code S3CC9PB, has received EAL4+ level Common Criteria (CC) certification. The advanced security requirement makes the new smart card an attractive solution for security-sensitive applications such as SIM cards, E-money, Java and MULTOS cards.
December 17, 2002
LSI Logic Corporation announced that Lite-On Information Technology Corporation is using the DVD&MORE (DVD and Multimedia Optical Recording Entertainment) manufacturing kit as the basis for its newest DVD & PLUS Combo Series product, LVR-1001. With DVD&MORE, Lite-On IT is able to quickly and effectively develop feature-rich home entertainment systems like the LVR-1001, which is not only a DVD player, but a high-speed CD burner, photo browser and AV recorder with a user-friendly graphical interface, all in one.
December 17, 2002
Maxtor Corporation announced its Maxtor Atlas 10K Ultra320 SCSI hard drives are qualified and available to ship with the FlexArray Ultra320 SCSI storage enclosures from Raidtec Corporation.
December 16, 2002
Kingston® Company Inc., introduced the newest addition to its digital media product line, Data Traveler. Data Traveler is Kingston's first USB flash memory solution and is immediately available in 32MB, 64MB, and 128MB capacities.
December 16, 2002
Intel Corporation announced 10 server "building block" products, including five server boards, two server chassis and three RAID controllers, designed for OEM system builders and product integrators. Each new product is centered around the recently announced Intel® Xeon processor with 533 MHz system bus and the Intel® E7501 and Intel® E7505 chipsets.
December 16, 2002
Intel Corporation has created a software toolkit based on standards developed by the Network Processing Forum (NPF) that will reduce time to market for developers and assure interoperability with other standards-based network processing solutions.
December 12, 2002
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.announced the development of a new TFT LCD Driver IC. The new device features an industry first 260K real color depth and a one-chip design for small form factor and quality color shade requirements for wireless multimedia applications.
December 10, 2002
Promise Technology, Inc. announced that by the end of 2002 the company expects to ship its 10 millionth ATA-based controller product since Q3 1999, and that ATA RAID products comprise nearly 50 percent of that volume. These figures well exceed industry analysts' market forecasts, and underscore growing market acceptance of the ATA interface as an optimal solution for many RAID implementations.
December 10, 2002
VERITAS Software Corporation announced that it is now shipping VERITAS Storage Reporter, a Storage Resource Management (SRM) tool that provides a more detailed view into enterprise storage usage. This newly available product gives IT managers more control over storage management and its associated costs, including the ability to "charge back" individual departments for storage use.