Lastly, there's a rechargeable battery inside, which TDK rates for up to six hours of runtime.
ENGADGET: TDK preps its first weatherproof speaker, we go hands-on
In addition to selling components to Toshiba, TDK has also built HDDs for the company in its partner SAE plant in China.
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When TDK talks about its durability, it talks about liters of dousage, so a splash on your next beach vacation shouldn't be an issue.
ENGADGET: TDK preps its first weatherproof speaker, we go hands-on
And, TDK had a larger, more powerful speaker playing nearby, and we still had no problem hearing the song coming from the weatherproof model.
ENGADGET: TDK preps its first weatherproof speaker, we go hands-on
Still, the idea of the dock can live on with additions like Qi inductive charging, as we've seen from the likes of JBL and TDK already.
The recent announcement by Toshiba of two new technology centers in association with TDK and SDK gives the company the means to remain technologically competitive in the fast moving HDD industry.
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By the end of 2011 is it likely that there will only be three HDD companies (Seagate Technology, Western Digital and Toshiba) and a handful of independent companies making major HDD components (such as TDK, SDK and Fuji Electric).
To safeguard continuing access to rare earths, and to ensure production capability, Hitachi Metal has planned by 2013, and TDK in cooperation with Showa Denko have planned by 2014, to manufacture the magnets in China in (presumably obligatory) joint ventures with China partners.
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As independent head and media suppliers in an increasingly consolidated market, TDK and SDK carried on research and development that allowed them to introduce advancements such as perpendicular recording in Toshiba products in 2004, many months before the other hard disk drive companies could bring their perpendicular recording products to market.
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With the opening of its HDD Advanced Technology Center (with TDK and SDK) to develop higher density recording technology and the HDD Manufacturing Technology Center (with TDK and likely its partner SAE) to develop manufacturing capabilities, on July 16, 2011, Toshiba is taking clear steps to maintain its technological relevance and ability to remain a competitor in the HDD industry.
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