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Article: Portable memory, without the baggage: startup Cornice makes headway with an embedded one-inch disk drive.(Profile)(Company Profile)
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- Electronic Business
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- May 1, 2004
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New disk drive companies are rare, and successful new disk drive companies are even rarer. But startup Cornice has targeted a market niche that just might blossom.
Founded in August 2000 by Kevin Magenis, former vice president of engineering at Maxtor, and Curt Bruner, former designer at Quantum, the company operated in stealth mode until last year. Self-funded, the company devoted one third of its staff to consulting work while the other two thirds developed its product, a one-inch disk drive designed to be embedded in portable consumer electronics.
Because the Cornice founders designed the drive to be embedded, it lacks many of the electronics of a ...