3M Flexible Circuit for Hard Disk Drives Certified for Volume Production by Optimal.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2004 Custom 3M flexible circuits have been certified for high-volume production by Optimal Technologies Limited of Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. for use in their small form factor flex suspension assembly (FSA FSA Financial Services Authority FSA Food Standards Agency (UK) FSA Farm Service Agency (USDA) FSA Financial Services Agency (Japan) ). Optimal Technologies produces the flex suspension assemblies for a variety of hard disk drive (HDD (Hard Disk Drive) See hard disk and HDD caddy. HDD - hard disk drive ) OEMs, including a major Asia-based HDD OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and which uses the small form factor assembly to build their 1-inch drives. The 3M circuit connects the read/write head A device that reads (senses) and writes (records) data on a magnetic disk or tape. For writing, the surface of the disk or tape is moved past the read/write head. By discharging electrical impulses at the appropriate times, bits are recorded as tiny, magnetized spots of positive or to the drive electronics. They are available from the 3M Electronic Solutions Division. Optimal Technology produces a number of high performance assemblies for the hard disk drive industry. Optimal Technology Limited is 51 percent owned by Magnecomp International Ltd. and 49 percent owned by SAE (HK) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of TDK TDK Türk Dil Kurumu (Turkish Language Council) TDK The Dark Knights (gaming clan) TDK Tokyo Denkikagaku Kogyo KK (TDK Electronics Co. Ltd. , Japan. Small form factor HDDs provide high-performance storage capacity for demanding hand-held devices such as MP3 music players, digital cameras, PDAs, laptops and digital video players. When compared to competing flash-based storage technology, the small form factor drives offer inexpensive mass storage. For more information about this and other 3M flexible circuit technologies for hard disk drive applications, visit http://www.3m.com/diskdrive. About 3M Electronic Solutions Division The 3M Electronic Solutions Division, headquartered in Austin, Texas, has numerous technologies and provides a wide range of products for the electronics market. It provides products and solutions to meet the electronic industry's challenges of protecting sensitive components and precisely delivering them to the assembly point, as well as flexible and multilayer microinterconnect packaging solutions; embedded capacitance laminate materials, copper and fiber interconnect systems; cables and cable assemblies; static control products, and test and burn-in sockets. The business is part of 3M Company, an $18 billion diversified technology company with leading positions in consumer and office; display and graphics; electronics and telecommunications; health care; industrial; safety, security and protection services; transportation and other businesses. More information on 3M embedded capacitance materials is available on the Internet at http://www.3M.com/microinterconnect. 3M is a trademark of 3M Company. |
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