Cable companies, racing to keep up, are installing a TiVo-like disk into their set-top boxes.
The 4420 will also offer "random erase technology" that lets you use a CD-RW disc just like a floppy or hard disk -- adding or deleting individual files at any time.
Under Jobs' leadership, Apple has helped usher in now-common features like the mouse and the 3.5-inch floppy disk.
Marvell has dominated every market it has chosen to enter, with superior designs at a premium price: It knocked Texas Instruments out of the disk-drive chip business and rivals Broadcom in key communications markets like Ethernet ports and Wi-Fi radios.
Though not directly affected by the Thai flooding, the company cautioned that they could be affected by potential shortages of non-optical components used in customer systems, like hard disk drives.
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Parallels touts that its software includes a built-in suite of tools like Kaspersky antivirus software and Acronis disk backup.
About six years ago, Fusion-io realized that the traditional disk-based storage approach would not work for the next generation applications, like social networking and the cloud.
"Solid state" storage systems, like flash memory, offer some clear advantages over the spinning-disk drives of the past.
The photo shows the plane of the Milky Way, which is often described as looking like two fried eggs back-to-back, with a flat disk in the middle.
As we approach the general availability of ultrabooks with the Windows 8 operating system it looks like the largest sales for ultra-thin computers will include a hard disk drive as well as flash memory.
But the Santa Clara, California company has always been its mother's child, with Dai supplying a majority of the company's cultural DNA. Marvell, which makes high-speed chips for disk drives and communications gear, has great designs that outperform older chips made by giants like Intel, Texas Instruments and Broadcom.
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