The Hard Disk Drive Industry: Market Analysis And Processing Trends

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Apr 11, 2014, 06:59 ET

DUBLIN, Ireland, April 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bh3xb4/the_hard_disk) has announced the addition of the "The Hard Disk Drive Industry: Market Analysis And Processing Trends" report to their offering.
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Despite the rapid adoption of Solid State Drives (SSDs), hard disk drives (HDDs) will continue to lead the overall storage market because of their cost advantage on higher densities and dollars-per-gigabyte pricing.

SSDs will become more attractive to PC makers and buyers alike as costs decline for the NAND flash memory at the heart of the storage devices.

This report focuses on the entire hard disk drive market food chain, analyzing the markets for hard disk drives, substrates, and thin film heads. Processing issues in the manufacture of each of these sectors in included and the report details the CMP and Lithography sectors of thin film head processing.

Market forecasts of all sectors are detailed.

Key Topics Covered:

Chapter 1 The Disk Drive Market Infrastructure

Chapter 2 The Disk Drive Industry

2.1 Hard Disk Drive Trends
2.2 Hard Disk Form Factors
2.3 Hard Disk Drive Market Analysis
2.3.1 Desktop PCs
2.3.2 Portable PCs
2.3.3 Enterprise
2.3.4 Consumer Electronics
2.4 Competitive Structure
2.4.1 HDD Market Share
2.4.2 Solid-State Drives (SSD)
2.4.3 Hybrid Hard Drives (HHD)

Chapter 3 The Media Market

3.1 Industry Trends
3.2 Media Profiles
3.3 Media Market Supplier Shares

Chapter 4 The Substrate Market

4.1 Platter Substrate Materials
4.1.1 Aluminum Disks
4.1.2 Glass Disks
4.2 Substrate Market
4.3 Substrate Suppliers
4.4 Glass Substrate Supplier Shares

Chapter 5 Recording Heads 5-1

5.1 Thin Film Read/Write Heads
5.1.1 Thin Film (TF) Heads
5.1.2 Magnetoresistive (MR/AMR) Heads
5.1.3 Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) Heads
5.1.4 Colossal Magnetoresistive (CMR) Heads
5.1.5 Current-Perpendicular-To-Place (CPP) Heads
5.1.6 Ballistic Magnetoresistance (BMR) Heads
5.2 Trends
5.3 Recording Head Market Forecast

Chapter 6 Processing Trends And Markets

6.1 Head Processing
6.1.1 Head Fabrication - CMP, Deposition, Lithography
6.1.1.1 CMP Challenges
6.1.1.2 Lithography Challenges
6.2 Patterned Magnetic Media
6.2.1 Conventional Media
6.2.2 Patterned Media
6.3 Market Analysis Of Discrete Track Media
6.3.1 The Perpendicular Recording Movement
6.3.2 A Blurry Roadmap From HDD Manufacturers
6.3.3 Analogy From The Semiconductor Industry
6.3.4 A Blurry Roadmap From Equipment Suppliers
6.3.5 Cost of Ownership (CoO) Analysis
6.4 CMP Slurry Market
6.4.1 Ceria Slurry For Glass Disk Market
6.4.2 Oxide Slurry For Metal Disk Market
6.4.3 Oxide Slurry For Thin Film Head Market

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