Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. to Present at IDEMA 2005 Symposium
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., (TAEC) announce today that Douglas Wong, member of TAEC's technical staff for memory products, will participate at the 2005 IDEMA Symposium titled "Small Form Factor HDD & Flash Memories: Coexistence or Competition." The symposium opens on February 17, 2005, at the Santa Clara Westin Hotel in Santa Clara, California, and will focus on the attributes of both magnetic hard disk drives and semiconductor flash memories for specific applications, and will attempt to answer the question on how these two technologies will either compete or coexist in today's market.
Wong's session, titled "The future of Solid State Storage: Which segments will be better served by NAND Flash?" Will address the rapid growth and widespread adoption in portable electronics and consumer applications of NAND Flash memory. He will review the tradeoffs that consumer electronics designers are facing when choosing between high capacity, micro Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and NAND Flash, and which applications and market segments are likely to be served by each of these storage solutions.
Wong's presentation is part of Session 2: Flash Memory Technology, chaired by Tom Coughlin, a data storage consultant. The session also includes presentations by Charles Lee of Intel, Esther Spanjer of M-Systems, Farshid Sabet of SanDisk and Don Barnetson of Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
About TAEC
Combining quality and flexibility with design engineering expertise, TAEC brings a breadth of advanced, next-generation technologies to its customers. This broad offering includes memory and flash memory-based storage solutions, a broad range of discrete devices, displays, medical tubes, ASICs, custom SOCs, microprocessors, microcontrollers and wireless components for the computing, wireless, networking, automotive and digital consumer markets.
TAEC is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba, one of the five largest semiconductor companies worldwide in terms of global sales for the year 2003 according to Gartner/Dataquest's Worldwide Semiconductor Market Share Ranking. Toshiba is a world leader in high-technology products with more than 300 major subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. For additional company and product information, please visit TAEC's website at chips.toshiba.com. For technical inquiries, please e-mail Tech.Questions@taec.toshiba.com.
About IDEMA
The International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA) is the trade association for the $30 Billion disk drive industry, representing 340 member companies in the personal computing, enterprise, and consumer electronic storage with offices in Sunnyvale, CA., Singapore, and Tokyo, Japan. Visit www.idema.org for more information.
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