182nd Special MMU Seminar


Seagate Media R&D role, responsibility, activities and road map.

Dr. Steve Hwang
Vice President, Recording media organization, Seagate technology.
Date: Thursday, April 4, 2013
Time: 10:30 - 11:15
Place: 8F medium seminar room (room#811 & 812), Sengen

Seagate Technology PLC is one of the world's leading manufacturers of hard disk drives (HDD), since incorporated in 1979. In Seagate, Recording Media Organization (RMO) is in charge of media R&D at Fremont, CA in USA and mass production at Woodland in Singapore, including perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) media, heat assistance magnetic recording (HAMR) media and bit pattern magnetic (BPM) media. In this presentation, I talk about the media R&D role and responsibility in Seagate Technology, and current R&D activities on PMR and HAMR media. Furthermore, I demonstrate the Seagate technology road map for the information storage trend and prospect.