This study examines the performance and market share of vendors in the hard disk drive (HDD) semiconductor market during 2005. Overall revenue market shares by vendor are included, as are splits by chip type and hard drive form factor. Chip types covered include hard drive controllers, read channel, system on a chip (SoC), preamplifier, and motor controller. Form factors covered include enterprise, desktop, and mobile.
Companies Mentioned: Agere; Marvell; IBM; IBM Microelectronics; ST Micro; ST Microelectronics; QLogic; LSI; Infineon; NEC; NEC Electronics; Renesas; Texas Instruments