STMicroelectronics’ compact and highly-integrated hard disk-drive (HDD) Motor Controller targets 1.8-in. and sub-1.8-in. drives used in portable products such as MP3 and video players. The L7208 HDD ...

STMicroelectronics has announced a new hard disk drive (HDD) motor-control chip that integrates all of the circuits required to drive both the spindle motor and the voice-coil of the drives used in ...

Hard drives can work for many years under ideal conditions. However, various factors such as manufacturing quality, careful handling, protection from high temperatures, moisture, and power peaks can ...

I’ve expressed no shortage of admiration in past writeups (stretching back…oh…a quarter century or so…) for the flash memory industry’s incremental cost ...