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To: Pierre-X who wrote (3771)	6/19/1998 1:33:00 PM
From: MKL	Respond to of 9256

News from Fujitsu! If Fujitsu is successful in selling the additional drives then oversupply will continue for Seagate, Quantum and WD. TOKYO, June 16 (Reuters) - Fujitsu Ltd said that it would boost its annual production of hard disk drives at its factories in Japan and overseas by 50 percent to 18 million units in 1998/99. The company plans to invest in new production lines for hard disk drive-related products at two of its domestic plants as well as plants in Thailand and Philippines. A spokesman for the company said Fujitsu also aims to raise its share of the global hard disk drive market to 15 percent in the current business year from about 10 percent now. Industry sources say Fujitsu is expected to invest about 40 billion yen. The spokesman, however, declined to confirm this figure.

To: Pierre-X who wrote (3771)	6/20/1998 2:37:00 PM
From: Yogi - Paul	Respond to of 9256

"Japan Govt Researchers Boost DVD Capacity 15fold TOKYO (Nikkei)-A research institute of the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology said Friday it has developed a digital video disc (DVD) which it claims can hold more than 15 times as much data as conventional discs. The high memory density is achieved by adding an antimony film to conventional DVDs. The advanced DVDs, 12cm in diameter, can store up to 30 hours of moving images, and do not require special players, according to the research institute. The new DVD can be used as a high-capacity storage device for multimedia data combining sound and image, research institute officials said. While the memory-enhanced DVD works on the same principles as conventional discs, the addition of a thin film made of antimony pinpoints laser beams on the recording stratum of the disc, allowing for greater storage capacity. (The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Saturday morning edition nikkei.co.jp Yogi