Bye Bye IBM...

Discussion in 'News' started by Adrian Wong, Jan 4, 2003.

  1. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    IBM just sold off its entire hard disk division to Hitachi for USD 2.05 billion! For a company that has developed many of the fundamental technologies used in our hard disks [think Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) heads and Partial Response Maximal Likelihood (PMRL)], this is a really sad ending.

    Although their hard disks do have a reputation for being unreliable, to the point of self-destruction, we are going to miss their phenomenal R&D...
     

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