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Article: HMT Technology Corporation Announces Advanced Media Capable of Supporting New World Record Areal Density of 26.5 Billion Bits Per Square Inch.
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- August 3, 1999
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FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 1999--
HMT Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: HMTT) announced today the demonstration of a 26.5 Billion Bits per Square Inch (26.5 Gb/in2) recording density using its advanced recording media in conjunction with high density Giant Magneto-Resistive recording heads from Read-Rite Corporation (NASDAQ: RDRT).
This demonstration is yet another world record in storage density and corresponds to greater than 38 Gigabytes of storage on a 3 1/2" diameter disk. Since July 1998, HMT has provided advanced recording media for four world record demonstrations with heads from Read-Rite. Over the last year, design points of 11.3, ...