On mb.com.ph we can read that while the current struggle to find the best recordable DVD format, Matsushita has decided to drop it's production of Floppy Disk Drives (FDD).
The company thinks the current CD-RW drives and the upcoming DVD-RW drives will push the Floppy drives of the market:
Infotech learned the fabrication of FDDs at Matsushita Communication Industrial Corp. in the Phils. dropped to 500,000 units per month from 1 million units in the year 2000. The latest figures, culled from sources within the company, is equivalent to 50 percent of the usual production rate of FDDs at Matsushita's manufacturing facility located at Phil. Export Processing Zone Authority-administered Laguna Techno-Park in Sta. Rosa, Laguna province. |
'FDD is a fading category," admitted Kengo Toda, president of Matsushita Communication Industrial Corp. in the Phils. 'as PC makers plan to sharply decline its use in the next three to five years" '” giving way to the dominant format '” compact disc recordable/rewritable or CD-R/RW based on optical storage controller technology. CD-RW drives, which write to discs which can be played in CD players and CD-ROM drives, roughly ship on 60 percent of PCs sold globally, IDC figures show.
Meanwhile, the DVD-RW, DVD+RW or DVD-RAM formats record to 4.7GB disks similar to those used in DVD movies. Infotech was made aware that Matsushita, carrying the National/Panasonic trade name in its devices, is currently backing the recordable technology
Well I don't mind about the floppy dissapearing, i've no floppydrive myself anymore for years and I never miss it. Besides that, what currently fits on 1.44 Mb
Source: MB.com.ph
