Storage Technologies

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	2003	Download all 2003 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2003: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2004
November -		Magnetic Memory for Computational Logic Announcement: Next Generation Technologies
October -		Recent Developments: Turning Semiconductor Memory into 3-D Packages • Data-Storage Systems in Modular Packages Areas to Monitor: Potential Shift beyond Binary Logic and Storage
September -		Recent Developments: DRAM Memory Market Makes Slight Gains • Seagate Demonstrates Advanced 2.5-inch Hard Drive • Sony Enhances Its Flash-Memory–Card Product Line • Lexar Media Ships 4-Gbyte Compact Flash Card
August -		IBM and Infineon Promote Magnetic Memory to Replace Flash Recent Developments: Self-Destructing Digital Video Disks • Phase-Change RAM Poised to Reenter Memory Competition
July -		Holographic Storage
June -		Recent Developments: Edges of Magnetic Tape Key to Boosting Data Density Areas to Monitor: Toward Nanometer Scales • Nanomagnetic Proteins for Hard Drives • Carbon Nanotubes as Potential Memory Devices
May -		Alternative Technologies Appearing in Nonvolatile Memory Recent Developments: Prototype Nanocrystal Flash Chip
April -		Commercial Developments in Blue-Laser Optical Storage Recent Developments: Hitachi "Pixie Dust" Technology and Hewlett-Packard Notebook Users
March -		Recent Developments: Data Stored in Live Cells • Abundant Information Storage • Ultra-High-Density Data Storage and a Breakthrough in Nanoscale Magnetic Sensors
February -		Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Recent Developments: Secrects of Presumed "Cleaned" Hard Drives

	2002	Download Aug.–Dec. 2002 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2002: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2003
November -		Hard Drives: Replacement for Magnetic Tape? Recent Developments: New Media Storage Standard • Miniature Optical Disc • DataPlay Compact-Disc Start-Up
October -		Magnetoresistive Random-Access Memory
September -		Recent Developments: Hitachi's Flash Technology Will Debut at 1 Gbit • AMD Unveils Low-Power Flash-Memory Chip Areas to Monitor: Atomic-Level Prototype Memory Points to Density Limits
August -		Recent Developments: IBM Will Produce DeskStar in China • Sony Pushes Its Memory Stick: What Do You Do with a Camera-Equipped Cell Phone? • SmartDisk Corporation Spans All Formats with Its Universal Flash Reader • Midsummer Brings New Records in Storage Technology • Philips Produces a Miniature Optical Disc • VHS Is Beginning to Disappear • The PC Market Will Rebound
July -		Recent Developments: Sales of DVD Players Going Well • Additional ML Technologies for Calimetrics • A Tiny Memory Device for Mobile Storage • 300-Gbit/inch² Density
June -		A Look at Developments in Storage Technologies Explorer Announcement
May -		Recent Developments: An Icon of the World of HDDs Is Leaving • Toshiba's 2.5-Inch Drive Excels with Highest Aereal Densities • Three Technologies Will Expand Flash Memories
April -		Recent Developments: The Blue-Ray Disc • Holographic DVD • The Terabit/Inch² Goal • A High-Density MO Disc • Consumer Applications with Dual Technologies
March -		Flash-Memory Cards Recent Developments: Holographic Storage?
February -		Recent Developments: The Areal Densities Game • Recovery for Storage Technologies • A Bright Future for Specialized Memory Cards • Hewlett-Packard Preparing to Phase Out of Rewritable CD Drives

	2001
Dec/Jan -		2001: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2002
November -		Recent Developments: Blue-Laser DVD • Storage Technologies for Mobile Consumer Products • Changes in Storage Solutions
October -		Recent Developments: Tangible Bits • Flash Memories on the Move • The Slow Demise of Magnetic-Storage Tapes
September -		Recent Developments: DVD-RAM and DVD+RW Both on the Market • An 18-Gigabyte DVD • HDD Industry's Continuing Oversupply • 100-Gigabyte Drives • BlueArc's First Delivery • Price War in NAND Flash Memory
August -		Recent Developments: Another HDD Storage-Density Record • A 150 Gbyte Optical Disc from Germany • A New Substrate Material for Blue-Laser DVDs • Nichia Shipping Blue Lasers in Volume • A 1.5-Terabyte Storage Unit • HDDs Moving into Nontraditional Applications
July -		Recent Developments: IBM's Travelstar Delivers the Highest Storage Densities • Seek Times Fall Below 10 Milliseconds • Philips Launches a 3-Inch CD Player
June -		Network Storage Technologies Recent Developments: BlueArc
May -		Recent Developments: A Plug-in-Hard Drive Replacing a Portable Computer • Toshiba's New 10-Gbyte MiniDrive • Sony's Flash Memory Game • Declining Use of Magnetic Tape
April -		Recent Developments: A Three-Dimensional CD-RW from Calimetrics • Format War in DVD Audio
March -		The Battle for the DVD Recorder • New Form Factors Recent Developments: PLasmon's High-Density MO Disc
February -		Recent Developments: Flash Memories' Double Storage Densities • A DVD Recorder Plus a Hard-Disk Drive • Sony's New Camera with a CD-R Burner • Toward a 1-Terabyte Density
*Prior to February 2001, this technology area was known as "Optical Storage Technologies".*

	2000
Dec/Jan -		2000: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2001
November -		Recent Developments: The Race toward 100 Gbits/inch² • A Merger of Maxtor and Quantum • A Wristband Watch-Size Music Player
October -		Flash Memories Are Finding Their Place Recent Developments: Fujitsu and Sony Double the Capacity of Their MO Drives • DVD Sales Double Again
September -		Recent Developments: Fujitsu Advances into HDD Leadership Position • Sony Develops a Double-Density CD • C3D Demonstrates Fluorescent Multilayer Disc • Flash-Memory Cards Face a Schism
August -		The Trend toward Miniaturizing Storage Technologies Recent Developments: TeraStor
July -		Terabit Storage Densities Recent Developments: Higher Storage Densities • Smaller Form Factors • Faster Access Times for Optical Discs • E-Disk for Superfast Applications
June -		DVD Industry: On a Self-Destructive Path? Recent Developments: A Miniature Optical Disc • Fujitsu's Storage-Density Record
May -		Recent Developments: Disk Drives Spin at 15 000 RPM • Microdrives Eye the Market for Flashcards • DVD+RW Is Coming • DVD-Video Recorders Are Out • Sales of CD-RWs Continue to Grow
April -		Storage Densities of 1 Terabit/Inch²
March -		Audio-Video Hard-Disk Drives
February -		Three Dimensional Storage Recent Developments: A Keystone for the Bridge to Digital Convergence

	1999
Dec/Jan -		1999: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2000
November -		HDD Technology Is Flying High
October -		Recent Developments: New Records in Storage Technologies' Densities • DVD Sales Doubling • Shape-Memory Alloys for Data Storage • A Royalty Tax on CD-RWs
September -		The Market for OST Products Continues to be Unsettled
August -		Explorer Technology Charts
*Before August 1999, the Explorer service was called TechMonitoring, and Viewpoints* were TechLinks.**
July -		TeraStor Appears to Be Missing Its Window of Opportunity DVD-Audio Standard Adds Audio
June -		A Long Term Strategy for OST Recent Developments: Hewlett-Packard to Advance its CD-RW • Jukeboxes of DVD-ROM Discs • Japan to Manufacture DVDs in China
May -		Recent Developments: Hard Disk Drives to Enter Consumer Electronics • Atomic Force Microscope for High-Density Recording • A Great Step Forward for MO Capacities • Triple-Digit Growth Forecast for DVD This Year
April -		The Window for the CD-RW to Become PC's Primary Storage Technology Is Not Yet Closed Recent Developments: The Record in Storage Technologies Densities Is New
March -		Recent Developments: On the Way to Double the Capacity of DVD Technology • Demand for CD-R Discs • A Philips DVD-Video Recording Technology
February -		Report from the 1998 DVD Conference Recent Developments: DVD Industry and the Gap for Capacity of DVD-RAM • A New Polymer for Optical Storage

	1998
Dec/Jan -		1998: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1999
November -		Outlook on Shipments of Optical Storage Technology Recent Developments: DVD-RW versus DVD+RW • DVD-Audio Specs Finalized
October -		Status of DVD Format War Recent Developments: Announcement of the Floppy's Death: Premature • Strong Growth in Sales of MiniDisc Systems
September -		Sales Boom in CD-RW Recent Developments: Japan to Develop Dramatic Capacity Improvements for Optical Discs • CD-Rkive to Solve the Government's E-Mail Storage Problems
August -		Recent Developments: TeraStor Unveils Introductory Products • Pinnacle Micro Launches 5.2-Gbyte Optical Drive • A Good Year for CD-RW Is Likely
July -		Terabyte Storage
June -		Optical Discs under Siege
May -		Recent Developments: Ioptics Unveils Breakthrough Optical Storage Device • Beyond the Blue Laser • DVD in China • SRS Labs's TruSurround Technology Installed by Three Major PC Makers • Light Sensitive Polymers for Software Copyright Protection
April -		Recent Developments: Optical-Assisted Winchester Technology from Seagate • A Patent for Platinum-Cobalt Multilayer Film for MO-Disc • Kodak's Changes in Its Large-Format Optical Storage Program • Outlook for CD-RW • Long-Term Stability of Storage Media
March -		Impact of DVD-RAM on MO Technology Recent Developments: Improvements in Holographic Recording Speed • Blue Laser Update • A Combination of Magnetic and Optical Recording Storage Product • DVD Group Optimistic for 1998
February -		Recent Developments: Blue Laser: 1000 Hours and Beyond • Patent for an Optical Disc Having Both Linear and Constant Angular Velocity Regions • A CD-ROM with 165 Gbyte by 2000? Commercial Development Parameters: MiniDisc Audio in Japan • DVD-ROMs and DVD-RAMs • DVD Outlook • A DVD Alliance between Toshiba and Microsoft

	1997
Dec/Jan -		1997: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1998
November -		Recent Developments: Magnetic and Optical Storage Technology Wed • Terastore and Olympus Announce 20-Gbit Drive • DVD Forum Steps up to 4.7-Gbyte Density DVD-RAM Format • "Divx" System Offers Enhanced Copyright Protection • Blue Laser Life Extends to 300 hours
October -		Recent Developments: The DVD-Forum, Sony, and the Others • Spec for DVD-Rs and DVD-RAM • Copyright Legislation in Congress • A Digital VCR by Sony • An IBM Patent for a Multilevel Disc • Reversible Data Storage on PET
September -		Status of DVD Video Technology, Summer 1997 Recent Developments: DVD Audio • Optimistic CD-R Forum • Multiple Use of Phase-Change Head
August -		Report from Alternative Storage Technologies Conference: TeraStor
July -		Recent Developments: TeraStor Announces Tenfold Increase in Storage Capacity • Pinnacle Announces Large Capacity Increase • Calimetric's Approach to a DVD Drive with 15 Gbytes for HDTV Is Novel • Showdown Is Likely in 12-cm Rewritable Drive • Capacities Are Developing for the Twenty-First Century • The Move toward DVD-ROM Is Under Way • Protonic Memory Will Protect against Sudden Loss of Data because of Power Loss
June -		Recent Developments: DVD Consortium Relaunched as DVD Forum • Recordable DVD Specifications Finally Emerge
May -		Optical Discs on a Roll
April -		Three-Dimensional Write-Once Optical Storage System • Novel Approach to Reading Multilayer Discs • Terabit per Inch Optical Disc Storage • Atomic Force Microscope Storage Technique from Hitachi • Nanometer Recording System from Canon
March -		PC Industry Begins to Support DVD
February -		Rewritable CD Specifications Are Finalized • MAMMOS Technology Doubles Magneto-Optical Capacity

	1996
Dec/Jan -		1996: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1997
November -		Reading CDs on DVD Drives: Manufacturers Propose a Variety of Solutions • DVD Regional Coding and Copyright Protection Becomes Clearer
October -		DVD Specifications
September -		Technologies Compete for High-Capacity Writable Desktop Storage Market • Thomson Loses Patent Case
August -		Optical Tape: A High-Reliability Write-Once Storage Alternative
July -		European Companies Differ about DVD Application and Market Growth • Reversible Optical Switch Could Lead to Massive Data Storage Capacities
June -		DVD Technical Specifications Near Completion • DVD Users to Customize Their Own Movies
May -		Phase Change and MO in Rewritable Stroage Market • Multimedia Cartridge Drive
April -		3M and Matsushita Develop Very High-Capacity Floppy Disk • Upcoming DVD Release Has a Potential Hitch • Companies Introduce High-Speed CD-ROM Drives
March -		Effort Under Way to Develop HD-ROM Technology
February -		Pushing the Limits of Three-Dimensional Data Storage • Holographic Storage Technology Consortium
Dec/Jan -		1995: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1996