The reason we are optimistic about IBM's prospects is that with the worst very likely behind it - Y2K freezes, the problems in the HDD business and slump in services revenues that impacted 1Q00 - second-half 2000 is likely to turn up strong for IBM.
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Having the right storage solution is the key to making consumer electronics markets happen. Today's consumers want to carry large volumes of digital content. Toshiba's leadership in the 1.8-inch HDD category, along with new technologies like perpendicular recording, have enabled us to deliver the right combination of high-capacity storage across all mobile HDD platforms. We're executing solidly from our 2.5-inch family down to the tiny 0.85-inch HDD, which will offer up to 10GB of capacity by 2007.
Consumers want their content portable, and the 79 percent increase in shipments of mobile disk drives into consumer devices in 2005 over 2004 is evidence of this dynamic. IDC attributes this growth to a combination of innovative disk drive designs and effective integration of HDD technology into consumer devices by companies like Toshiba.