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Article: Toshiba Acquires Panasonic Shikoku Electronics' U.S. HDD Design Center; Toshiba Expands Global Development Resources and Engineering Support to Continue Technology Leadership in Small Form Factor Hard Disk Drives.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- May 12, 2005
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TOKYO & IRVINE, Calif. -- Toshiba Corp. and Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. (TAIS), the industry pioneers in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), have strengthened their global product development capabilities for HDDs and engineering support resources for PC and consumer electronics customers with the acquisition of Panasonic Shikoku Electronics' HDD design center in Fremont, Calif. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The newly acquired design center will support HDD development at Toshiba's Ome operations in Japan. In addition, Toshiba's new facility will provide engineering support to PC and consumer electronics companies, putting ...