WESTERN DIGITAL NAMES MARC NUSSBAUM SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, STORAGE ENGINEERING.Irvine, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1994--Western Digital Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :WDC WDC Washington DC, USA WDC Western Digital Corporation WDC World Data Center WDC Warwick District Council (UK) WDC World Diamond Council WDC Workforce Development Center WDC Wisconsin Democracy Campaign ) today announced the promotion of Marc H. Nussbaum to senior vice president, engineering and chief technical officer, storage business. Nussbaum guided the transition of Western Digital's storage engineering organization from LSI and controller boards to the forefront of the disk drive industry with the development of the company's flagship Caviar product family. Kathy Braun, executive vice president and general manager of Western Digital's storage business, stated: "This promotion recognizes Marc's expanded role in the corporation and his leadership of the storage engineering team, whose Caviar designs established a product leadership position for Western Digital in the disk drive business." Under Nussbaum, the engineering team achieved a first to market position with several high volume IDE drives including the Caviar 2340, 2420, 2540, 2700 and most recently, the Caviar 31000 1 GByte design. Western Digital's storage engineering group has contributed several significant technologies to the industry, including the single chip hard disk integrated control device, the zoned bit recording See CAV. embedded servo drive, the intelligent single chip SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. protocol device, the low cost integrated CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. data separator device, the industry standard AT-IDE (ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment ) Intelligent drive interface, and most recently the Enhanced IDE (EIDE (Enhanced IDE) An extension to the IDE interface that supports the ATA-2 and ATAPI standards. ATA-2 (Fast ATA) provides faster transfer rates (see IDE for details) and allows for multiple channels, each connecting two devices. ) drive interface. Nussbaum, 38 joined Western Digital in 1981. He has held a variety of technical and management positions. Prior to coming to Western Digital, Nussbaum held electrical and firmware design positions at McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company and technical positions at DP Communications Corporation. He is a 1977 cum laude graduate of the State University of New York (body) State University of New York - (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state. with a bachelors degree in physics. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Western Digital Corporation is a recognized leader in the design and manufacture of hard disk drives, integrated circuits, and graphics controller board-level products. The Company markets these products to leading systems manufacturers and selected resellers under the Western Digital, Caviar, Paradise, and RocketCHIP brand names. The Company was founded in 1970 and has long been noted for its storage and graphics controller expertise and end-market systems-level design knowledge. Western Digital Caviar, and Paradise are registered trademarks of Western Digital Corporation. RocketCHIP is a trademark of Western Digital Corporation. All other marks mentioned herein belong to other companies. CONTACT: Western Digital Corporation Robert J. Blair, 212/867-4490 |
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