(In some instances, what shifted was their ownership: I.B.M. sold its hard-disk division to Hitachi, which later sold its division to Western Digital).
Data General's disk drive division has been a big part of the company's turnaround.
The company, whose $2.05 billion deal last April will gradually give it full ownership of I.B.M.'s disk drive division, takes management control of the business today.
Hitachi, whose $2.05 billion deal last April will gradually give it full ownership of I.B.M.'s disk drive division, formally takes management control of the business today.
The consumer push by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will be coupled with an effort to remake the core business, which sells drives to computer makers, in hopes of reversing the fortunes of the business under I.B.M. I.B.M.'s disk drive division had become unprofitable in recent years and had not been a market leader in drives for servers and desktop computers.
The disk drive division has grown to $500 million in sales since its inception in 1992 and will account for $680 million of the $1.8 billion in estimated sales for fiscal 1998.
Even the much-touted high-end disk drive division (focus of the EMC deal) is coming under pressure from Seagate Technology, which is taking market share with its Cheetah drives.
Even the much-touted high-end disk drive division (focus of the EMC deal) is coming under pressure from Seagate Technology seg, which is taking market share with its Cheetah drives.
Vanderslice, 59, who had run IBM's disk-drive division, was named to run the new Technology Group and oversee the bosses of five components divisions.
The results presented are for the pressure distribution, total stress, pad penetration, friction stress, heat flux and temperature during contact, for different values of contact stiffness factor, Fkn, which depends on the property gradation of FG brake disk with 200 material property divisions.
The cell number in the forewing disks increased exponentially through most of the feeding and wandering stage, with a doubling time of 30±3 h, but on day 8 of the 5th instar cell division in the wing disk stops and growth ceases (Figure 1C).
