With the advent of streaming services, plenty of people are opting to forego the collection of physical media. In turn, there are now a lot of optical drives sitting unused in parts bins and old ...

We’ve all likely seen the amazing images possible with a scanning electron microscope. An SEM can yield remarkably detailed 3D images of the tiniest structures, and they can be invaluable tools for ...

Billerica, Mass. – Sipex Corp. has launched the first member of a new family of ICs for CD/DVD pickup heads. The SP8040, a photodetector IC (PDIC) for pickup head read channels, combines a ...

Living in the future if one thing is clear, it's that digital media is king. In the gaming world, it's becoming far more common to buy games digitally than it is to purchase physical copies. This has ...

Acute Applied Technologies (Aatek) plans to begin volume production at its fourth Shanghai-based DVD drive pickup head production line and increase total monthly production capacity to 400,000 units ...