Optical Storage Device Market By Segment, Industry Verticals, Geography and Vendors to 2022

Global Optical Storage Device Market Research Report 2017 to 2022 provides a unique tool for evaluating the market, highlighting opportunities, and supporting strategic and tactical decision-making. This report recognizes that in this rapidly-evolving and competitive environment, up-to-date marketing information is essential to monitor performance and make critical decisions for growth and profitability. It provides information on trends and developments, and focuses on markets and materials, capacities and technologies, and on the changing structure of the #OpticalStorage Device Market. Companies Mentioned are #SonyCorporation, #WesternDigitalTechnologies, #SamsungElectronics, #IBMCorporation, #TOSHIBA, #FUJITSU, #HITACHI. The Global Optical Storage Device market consists of different international, regional, and local vendors. The market competition is foreseen to grow higher with the rise in technological innovation and M&A activities in the future. Moreover, many local and regional vendors are offering specific application products for varied end-users. The new vendor entrants in the market are finding it hard to compete with the international vendors based on quality, reliability, and innovations in technology.

https://www.equityinsider.org/2017/08/28/optical-storage-device-market/

Huawei reckons it can strong ARM its way into AI world with new chips

Chinese systems colossus #Huawei claims it is developing chips optimized for artificial-intelligence tasks. The silicon will combine an application CPU, a graphics processing unit, and a hardware engine for accelerating #machinelearning algorithms, it's reported. Technical details are scant, unfortunately. The components will be unveiled later this year, we're told. Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu hopes the technology will help the electronics giant compete against Google and Apple in the realm of AI processor development. In other words, Huawei wants you using its specialized chips for running artificial intelligence code, be it on a phone or whatever, and not #Apple 's nor #Google 's. As you probably know, Huawei produces system-on-chips, and has its own fabless semiconductor subsidiary, HiSilicon, located in Shenzhen, China. It has purchased licenses to use various ARM CPU core designs, and developed Kirin chips for use in Huawei's smartphones and tablet computers. So far, so Apple. The Chinese goliath has an AI research partnership with the University of California at Berkeley, bringing together Berkeley's AI Research facility (BAIR) and Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab. The alliance is looking at deep learning, reinforcement learning, machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision. #BAIR also works with #Facebook, #Microsoft, #Samsung, #Sony, #Adobe, #Amazon, #Yahoo!Japan, #Nvidia, #Intel, and #Siemens. Noah's Ark Lab has facilities in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, and its research areas include: Machine learning Data mining Speech and language processing Information and knowledge management Intelligent systems A branch will be opened in Paris, we're told, and it will do research on intelligent telecommunication networks using machine learning

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/20/artificially_intelligent_huawei_chippery/

Dell drops optical drive price-fixing lawsuit against Hitachi

#Dell has agreed to drop its suits against #Hitachi and Hitachi #LG Data Storage after previously alleging it had been part of a conspiracy to fix prices for optical disk drives. There has been no mention of any settlement. The cases were dismissed "without prejudice" with all parties having to pay their own lawyers. The cases* – there are several, against several vendors – started in May 2013 – and the original complaint reads: "Dell brings this action on behalf of itself and its affiliates to recover for injury to its business and property and other harms arising from billions of dollars of purchases, at artificially inflated prices, over several years, of optical disk drives ('ODDs')." The drives were CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray disk drives. #Dell sued #NEC, #SamsungElectronics, #Sony, #Toshiba and others as well. Eventually these cases were shrunk; defendants NEC and Sony went away, and others consolidated in an MDL (Multi-District Litigation.) Other optical disk buyers piled in to sue the optical disk makers too. #Acer sued Toshiba, Samsung and others in October 2013, as did #HP. Earlier, in 2011, an investigation by the US Department of Justice led to three Hitachi-LG Data Storage execs pleading guilty to anti-trust violations in the optical disk industry, and getting jail sentences and a fine. HLDS admitted to rigging the market and so its larger customers went to court to recover over-payments and get damages. HP has dropped its claims against Sony and Panasonic. Now Dell has walked away from its case against Hitachi and HLDS, with neither side stating why or mentioning any agreement. Optical disks in PCs, which is what the cases centred on, are history; streaming and download services have seen to that. * The cases were 3:13-cv-03350 and 3:10-md-02143 in the US District Court in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/26/dell_drops_optical_drive_lawsuit/

Sony Pictures & Dell Team Up on SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING Global Integrated Campaign

When #SPIDERMAN: HOMECOMING swings into theaters July 7, #Dell will be at #SonyPictures ' side for all the action. Dell teamed up with Sony Pictures, a long time Dell customer and partner, to take collaborations to the next level with Spider-Man: Homecoming. Collaborating both behind and in front of the camera, Spider-Man: Homecoming will kick off a 360-degree integrated global marketing campaign featuring the highly anticipated film and PC gaming industry's newest entrant, Dell's new Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming laptop. The alliance will integrate Dell products into the film's storyline along with a full-scale marketing and promotional campaign featuring Dell and Sony Pictures Spider-Man: Homecoming properties. The campaign features a TV spot, cinema, print, digital advertising, out-of-home placements, and consumer engagement activations throughout the summer. The campaign will engage fans of Spider-Man and the Marvel Cinematic Universe; as well as movie fans at large who like to game for fun and socialize, and more competitive gamers looking for the latest in technology and the best visual gaming experiences. The television ad campaign highlighting new Spider-Man content created with Jon Watts, the director of Spider-Man: Homecoming, features Peter Parker daydreaming in class about an epic battle between Spider-Man and the Vulture. The advertising spot will air on TV networks in the US on June 26 and later this summer in China, UK, Brazil, Japan, Australia and Mexico across cinema, online and TV.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Sony-Pictures-Dell-Team-Up-on-SPIDER-MAN-HOMECOMING-Global-Integrated-Campaign-20170621

Foxconn cuts 60,000 factory jobs and replaces them with robots

#Foxconn, the largest contract electronics manufacturer in the world, says it has automated away 60,000 jobs in one of its factories, according to the BBC. The cuts are part of an ongoing process to replace humans responsible for "many of the manufacturing tasks associated with our operations" with robots, the company said in a statement. Foxconn helps manufacture #Apple 's #iPhone and #iPad, #Samsung 's Galaxy phone line, and #Sony 's PlayStation 4, as well as other devices from many of the world's biggest tech brands.

"We are applying robotics engineering and other innovative manufacturing technologies to replace repetitive tasks previously done by employees, and through training, also enable our employees to focus on higher value-added elements in the manufacturing process, such as research and development, process control and quality control," the statement reads. "We will continue to harness automation and manpower in our manufacturing operations, and we expect to maintain our significant workforce in China." The company still employs more than 1.2 million people.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/25/11772222/foxconn-automation-robots-apple-samsung-smartphones