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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.announced that sales of Samsung’s high-speed Double Date Rate (128Mb and 256Mb DDR333 and DDR400) DRAMs surged to more than 10 million units (128Mb equivalent) for the month of November as demand increased for high-speed memory in high-performance PCs and work stations.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.announced that sales of Samsung’s high-speed Double Date Rate (128Mb and 256Mb DDR333 and DDR400) DRAMs surged to more than 10 million units (128Mb equivalent) for the month of November as demand increased for high-speed memory in high-performance PCs and work stations.

PQI presented USB 2.0 High Speed Card Reader series to provide the easiest, fastest way to access your storage cards including Compact Flash Card, Microdrive, Smart Media Card, Multi Media Card, Secure Digital Card and Memory Stick. By integrating the latest USB 2.0 technology, PQI brings the extremely fast speed up to 480Mbits/sec.

Use of TFT-LCDs is rapidly expanding from notebook PCs to monitors. Amid this trend, Samsung Electronics has become the world’s first to break the five million mark in annual TFT-LCD sales.

Intel Corporation introduced updated tools to help software developers optimize applications for Intel's expanding family of architectures with key innovations such as Intel's Hyper Threading Technology.

Seagate announced the Barracuda 7200.7 and the Barracuda 7200.7 Plus disc drives for PCs. Using advanced head and media technology to achieve 80-Gbytes-per-disc, the new drives add storage capacity of up to 160 Gbytes to Seagate's popular Barracuda hard drive family.