Toshiba will open in Japan two new R&D facilities for its hard disk drive business.

Toshiba said it will open on July 16 its HDD Advanced Technology Center to accelerate development of products with higher aerial density, a term referring to the ability to pack more bits on a square inch of a drive. The company will open the same day its HDD Manufacturing Technology Center to develop enhanced drive-making capabilities.

In 2004, Toshiba became one of the first drive makers to ship products using perpendicular magnetic recording technology, a technique now used in virtually all drives to achieve densities expected to hit 1Tbit per square inch.

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