In June, I heard from HGST that very nice progress on Bit Patterned Media (BPM) would be reported in August. At The Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC) meeting in August, the HGST team presented four papers on aspects of their Bit Patterned Media program. Their progress was definitely nice!
The bottom line was shown in a poster with record-breaking BPM read and write at 1.6 Tdot per square ...
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