The engineers next demonstrated the possibilities of their techniques by creating the essential components of digital integrated systems: arithmetic circuits and sequential storage, as well as the first monolithic three-dimensional integrated circuits with extreme levels of integration.

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The company expects a mid-single-digit sequential revenue drop in storage products in the fiscal first quarter, with a 20% drop in the mobile and wireless segment.

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As the buffer fills the older write data is transferred to the HDD in a sequential manner, optimized for HDD storage.

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In the storage market, the company suffered a 2% sequential revenue drop, worse than the flat revenues it had previously projected.

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Their cold storage specification is for a bulk load fast archive that handles a series of sequential writes and random reads.

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