Cnet: Before today, the TDK brand meant only one thing to me: mixtapes. Just the mention of it makes me nostalgic for peeling the cellophane off a 5-pack of cassettes, like a fresh pack of cigarettes.
Japanese electronic parts maker TDK Corp (6762.T) said it had agreed to buy InvenSense Inc (INVN.N), a U.S. chip maker that produces motion sensors for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Samsung Electronics Co (005930.KS), for $1.33 billion.
TDK introduces the STT-MRAM technology manufactured with only 8Mb memory, although the capacity is small, but the flash read and write performance is already seven times more than the previous Flash Memory candies.
Geek: Hard drive storage continues to increase at a steady rate, but just how long can we keep squeezing more data on to those platters? TDK has managed to ensure that the density keeps rising for a few more generations with its HAMR head innovation, but that may have already been rendered redundant through another discovery by a Dr Joel Yang at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE).
Without the use of costly gear, Dr. Joel Yang and team discovered that clustering info on the nanoscopic level through the use of sodium chloride made much higher storage space resolutions possible, and hence greater storage capability.
