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Table of Contents
Printed circuit boards are then mated to the head-disc assembly and the completed unit is tested prior to packaging and shipment. Final
assembly and test operations of our disc drives occur primarily at facilities located in China, Singapore and Thailand. We perform subassembly
and component manufacturing operations at our facilities in China, Malaysia, Northern Ireland, Singapore, Thailand, and in the United States,
in California and Minnesota. In addition, third parties manufacture and assemble components for us in various Asian countries, including
China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, and in Europe and the United States.
Products
We offer a broad range of disc drive products for the enterprise, desktop, mobile computing and consumer electronics sectors of the disc
drive industry. During fiscal year 2005, we introduced and shipped in volume 12 new disc drive products, including:
•
our first 1-inch form factor disc drive, the ST1, which is primarily used in hand-held consumer electronics devices such as digital
music players and digital cameras;
•
larger capacity 3.5-inch form factor disc drives to address the market for larger capacity digital video recorders and home media
storage devices and near
-
line enterprise applications;
•
additional capacity models of our 2.5-inch form factor Momentus mobile computing disc drive which will more completely address
our customers
’
mobile computing disc drive requirements; and
We offer more than one product within each product family, and differentiate products on the basis of price/performance and form factor,
or the dimensions of the disc drive. Historically, our industry has been characterized by continuous and significant advances in technology,
which contributed to rapid product life cycles; however, based upon the recent pace of new product introductions, we believe that our industry
is currently in a period in which the rate of increases in areal density, which is the storage capacity per square inch on a disc, is lower than the
rate of the last several years, resulting in longer product life cycles. We list in the table below our main current product offerings.
In June 2005, we further broadened our product offering with the announcement of 10 new disc drive products, which will be introduced
in fiscal year 2006, including:
•
new versions of our Barracuda and Cheetah desktop and enterprise disc drives.
Product Name
Markets
Served
Storage Capacities
(gigabytes)
Rotation Speed
(RPM)
Interface
Cheetah SFF 10K.1 (Savvio)
Enterprise
36 and 73
10,000
SCSI/Fibre Channel
Cheetah 10K.7 Enterprise 73, 146 and 300 10,000 SCSI/Fibre Channel
Cheetah 15K.4 Enterprise 36, 73 and 146 15,000 SCSI/Fibre Channel/SAS
Barracuda 7200.7
Desktop/Consumer Electronics
40, 80, 120, 160 and 200
7,200
ATA/SATA
Barracuda 7200.8 Desktop/Consumer Electronics 200, 250, 300 and 400 7,200 ATA/SATA
U Series X Desktop/Consumer Electronics 10 and 20 5,400 ATA
Momentus Mobile Computing 20, 30 and 40 5,400/4,200 ATA
Momentus 4200.2
Mobile Computing
60, 80 and 100
4,200
ATA
Momentus 5400.2 Mobile Computing 60, 80 and 100 5,400 ATA
ST1 Series Consumer Electronics 1.5, 2.5, 4, 5 and 6 3,600 ATA/Compact Flash/USB
•
additional capacity models of our 2.5-inch form factor Momentus mobile computing disc drive, including our first 2.5-
inch disc drive
using perpendicular recording technology and a model with full disc encryption technology for increased protection against
unauthorized access to data;
•
a 2.5-inch form factor disc drive designed for the latest game consoles, and smaller, cooler-running and more cost-effective small
footprint personal computers and home entertainment devices;
7
•
an 8GB 1-inch form factor disc drive, which will primarily be used in hand-held consumer electronics devices such as digital music
players and digital cameras;