Shulou(Shulou.com)12/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen OC_Formula for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com November 30 news, according to Economic Daily and other media reports, due to the impact of the impending factory closure of Lisenko Technology Co., Ltd., a key supplier of mechanical hard drives, the global price of mechanical hard drives is expected to rise sharply in the future.

It is reported that Lisenko Technology Co., Ltd. is a major manufacturer of thin films for mechanical hard drives. The company is headquartered in Japan and employs more than 25000 people. It is one of the few companies that produce thin films for HDD.

According to the report, Lisenko Technology Co., Ltd. is about to close its factory in the Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan and is cutting jobs in batches.

Reported that the factory was established in 1990, mainly to produce sputtered thin film disks, is the only professional hard disk manufacturer on the island, employing about 600 people.

With the changing trend of the industry, the production of hard drives in Taiwan is no longer competitive, so Lisenko decided to close the factory and nearly 600 employees will be laid off one after another in three batches.

It was widely expected that 2023 would be the first year of 30TB HDD, and Seagate and Western Digital both hoped to reach this milestone this year.

CTOnews.com reported this month that Western Digital issued a press release yesterday announcing the start of mass shipments of 10-disc 24TB CMR series mechanical hard drives for super-large, cloud and enterprise data center customers.

Western Digital said in a press release that since the launch of the new 28TB SMR HDD in August this year, it has been actively recognized by customers in the industry, and that production will be further increased next, and that 26TB SMR HDD EB will be launched in the first quarter of fiscal 2024, further consolidating its leading position in the SMR market.

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