Toshiba is spending about 60 billion yen to double its AI data-center hard-drive capacity by March 2028, its first major HDD investment in about five years. Its target of a 30% share of the market by storage capacity, roughly triple today's, depends on denser drives as well as new lines.
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Western Digital and Seagate each fell 10.2% after Nikkei Asia reported Toshiba will spend $400 million to double its AI hard-drive capacity in fiscal 2027. The bull case now turns on timing, because Toshiba's extra drives reach the price talks only when hyperscalers negotiate 2028 terms.
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Resume scoring apps sell optimisation against applicant tracking software whose AI ranking an employer may never have turned on, and Greenhouse's own CEO says the folklore about these systems outruns what the products actually do.
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The two companies are pairing Toshiba's SCiB lithium titanium oxide cells with DIMAAG's ZettaWatt platform at a continuous 10C rate. No customer, site, capacity or price has been named, and the specs are still in validation.
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Two employer surveys say recent graduates arrive unready, while the low-stakes tasks that used to teach them are the first ones handed to AI. The bench for three years out is a spending decision now.
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The $1.165 billion Sandisk owes Kioxia arrives in installments between 2026 and 2029, four years before the extended term begins, which is what a NAND buyer pays to stop renegotiating access annually.
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Denser NAND and a fall from more than $8,000 per gigabyte to under a dollar made small drives pointless to build. Kingston's DataTraveler line now starts at 64GB.
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