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John Murrell in News on March 2 at 3:56 pm PT
The vacated Solyndra solar plant in Fremont, Calif., is getting a new tenant focused on the future of a more mature technology. Seagate Technology on Friday announced plans for a $180 million research and development complex, employing as many as 600 people, to work on next-generation disk drives. The Solyndra plant, highly energy efficient and powered in part with solar panels, is “as close as we could get if we were building a custom facility tailored to our needs,” said Steven Deason, Seagate’s facilities director.
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Albert "Rocky" Pimentel, EVP & CMO, Seagate in Voices on January 28 at 4:50 pm PT
The storage fabric consists of the ability to access data nearly anywhere at any time, as well as a superstructure of hardware, software and services to deliver and manage it.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 28 at 2:35 pm PT
The hard drive maker also reports better-than-expected earnings.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 23, 2012 at 3:49 pm PT
Take a typical hard drive, add flash memory chips, and you get what? Something completely new.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 5, 2012 at 3:38 pm PT
Trouble at a supplier combined with the doomsday-that-wasn’t equals a sales miss.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 23, 2012 at 11:00 am PT
The deal would give Seagate access to LaCie’s retail and distribution footprint, and also control of a brand favored by Mac users.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 5, 2012 at 7:05 am PT
Research firm Gartner just knocked down its growth forecast for global tech spending by nearly 1 percent. It may not sound like much, but it amounts to slowdown worth about $100 billion.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 2, 2012 at 11:30 am PT
Chip sales were disrupted by the effects of the flooding in Thailand and by the euro zone crisis in November, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported today.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 23, 2011 at 5:45 am PT
Flooding in Thailand has killed more than 600 people, devastated the Thai economy and caused one of the most significant supply chain disruptions to the computer industry in a generation.