Hard-drive standard for handhelds.Intel, Hitachi Hitachi (hētä`chē), city (1990 pop. 202,141), Ibaraki prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on the Kashima Sea. The city is a leading producer of Japan's electrical equipment. , Marvell Semiconductor, Seagate (Seagate Technology, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA, www.seagate.com) The largest independent manufacturer of disk drives. Founded in 1979 by Alan Shugart, Tom Mitchell and Doug Mahon, it was the first to offer a 5MByte drive using 5. , and Toshiba Toshiba Corporation (株式会社東芝 Kabushiki-gaisha Tōshiba America are working together to define a standard interface for storage in wireless handhelds and other portable devices. The interface, known as CE-ATA, is designed to help manufacturers build disk drives that are small, power-efficient, and inexpensive. "No disk drive interface exists that is tailored to the needs of the handheld and consumer electronics market segments," says Knut Grimsrud, Intel CE-ATA senior principal engineer. "So disk drives have had to make do with other interface alternatives that are complex and cumbersome cum·ber·some adj. 1. Difficult to handle because of weight or bulk. See Synonyms at heavy. 2. Troublesome or onerous. cum or simply ill-suited to meet the needs of disk drives in space- and power-constrained handhelds." The specification is scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2005. |
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