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unusual facts about Hitachi-LG Data Storage


HLDS

Hitachi-LG Data Storage, a joint venture between Hitachi and the LG group


1978 TANFL season

The competition's major sponsor for the 1978 season was Hitachi.

1979 Hitachi Trophy

The 1979 Hitachi Trophy was a non-championship Formula Two, in conjunction with Formula Atlantic race held at Brands Hatch on April 15, 1979.

Agility Trains

Agility Trains is consortium of Hitachi, John Laing, and Barclays Private Equity which has been awarded a contract to design, manufacture, and maintain a fleet of long-distance trains to replace Britain's InterCity 125 fleet as part of the Department for Transport's Intercity Express Programme.

AMD v. Intel

Some of the manufacturers involved in the case were Dell, HP, Gateway, Acer, Fujitsu, Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi.

Ascribed characteristics

For example, consider the discussion in chapter 10 of Ronald Dore's British Factory, Japanese Factory, in which Dore inquires into whether hiring and promotion decisions in the Japanese firm Hitachi over a particular time were based chiefly on "achievement" or chiefly on "ascribed characteristics".

Believe in the Dream

On January 30, 2012, she sang "Believe in the Dream" in Hitachi Philippines' "Awakening" Distributorship Night at Century Seafood Restaurant.

Charlie Crane

He is signed to London based production company Knucklehead and has directed broadcast commercials for brands including Howies, Hitachi, COI, O2 UK, TV Licensing, Twinings and LoveFilm.

Chittaranjan Locomotive Works

Hitachi traction Motor is one of the most critical and vital equipment in conventional Electric locomotives type WAP-7 & WAP-4 under production at CLW.The production of Hitachi TM is now completely stabilized.

Debarwa

The Japanese company Hitachi once operated a mine near Debarwa, but it was shut down in the 1960s due to the outbreak of the Eritrean War of Independence from Ethiopia.

Digital Linear Tape

Manufacturers of cartridges for the DLT/SDLT market are Fujifilm, Hitachi/Maxell and Imation.

EcoCute

In Japan, Fusanosuke Kuhara, founder of Hitachi, Ltd., made an air conditioner for his own home use using compressed CO2 as a refrigerant.

Energy Saving Trust Recommended

Over 250 large, medium and small companies are currently members of the scheme including Hitachi Digital Media Group, Sony, Epson, John Lewis Partnership, Home Retail Group, Next, Samsung, Beko, Glen Dimplex, Baxi, Electrolux, Pure radios, Indesit, Knauf Insulation, Panasonic, Smeg and Aga Rangemaster.

English, baby!

English, baby! was founded in 2000 when John Hayden returned from working for Hitachi and teaching English in Japan.

EntropiK

In 2010 the duo's music gained further recognition through two international music competitions: The People's Music Awards, where they were runners up in the electronica category; and The Hitachi G-Tech Driven Creativity Awards, where they were runners up in the Professional Music category.

ES EVM

During 1960s–1970s, several other companies, such as Amdahl, Siemens and Hitachi, had also cloned the IBM architecture without IBM's approval.

Estrada de Ferro Santos-Jundiaí

The locomotives for this changeover had been constructed by Hitachi.

Flo Hyman

On January 24, 1986, Hyman collapsed while sitting on the sidelines after being substituted out in a game against Hitachi.

Hitachi Cable Manchester

Hitachi Cable Manchester, Inc. (HCM) is a manufacturer of premises telecommunications, optical fiber and electronics cables headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire, and part of the Hitachi Cable division of electronics conglomerate Hitachi.

Hitachi Data Systems

On August 20, 2010 Hitachi Data Systems acquired the intellectual property and core engineering team of ParaScale, developer of storage software which uses a clustered file system on multiple Linux servers to present a single file-storage appliance.

IBM PL/S

Their concern was that open PL/S would give competitors, Amdahl, Itel (National Advanced Systems), Storage Technology Corporation, Trilogy Systems, Magnuson Computer Systems, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and other PCM vendors a marketing advantage.

Intermat

A global offering, assembled by the principal international construction equipment manufacturers: Caterpillar, Komatsu, Hitachi, Volvo, Liebherr, JCB, Bobcat Company, Haulotte Group, Case New Holland, John Deere, Michelin, Wirtgen, Groupe Fayat, Mécalac Ahlmann, Manitou, etc.

Japan National Route 6

Major cities and villages it passes through include: Kashiwa, Toride, Tsuchiura, Ishioka, Mito, Hitachi, Iwaki, Tomioka, Ōkuma, Sōma, Watari, Iwanuma

Japan Robot Association

Members include Japanese robot manufacturers like Denso, FANUC, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Electric, Panasonic Corporation, Sony, Toshiba, Yamaha Motor Company, Yaskawa Electric Corporation.

Jōban Line

The name "Jōban" is dervied from the names of the former provinces of Hitachi (常陸) and Iwaki (磐城), which the line connects to Tokyo.

KEIS

KEIS is a stateful EBCDIC charset used in Hitachi mainframe systems.

Konada

Konada is near a site intended for eight nuclear power plants, at least six GE-Hitachi Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactors (ESBWRs).

Little Big Girl

Inspired by Bart's "Indian butter trick" and the well-known kitchen curtains, with their stalks-of-corn pattern, Lisa claims to be Native American, from the "Hitachi" tribe, a name Lisa selects based on the brand of the family's microwave oven.

Mediaguard

Manufacturers which incorporate Mediaguard into their equipment are notably Hitachi, Ltd., Humax, JVC, Kenwood Electronics, Nokia, Pace Micro Technology, Philips, Pioneer Corporation, Sagem, Samsung Electronics, Sony Corporation, Strong, Thomson, and Toshiba

Nissan A engine

With a two-barrel Hitachi carburetor and an 8.5 to 1 compression ratio this engine produced 62 bhp (46 kW) at 6,000 rpm and 61.5 lb·ft.

Office for Nuclear Regulation

In 2012 Hitachi purchased Horizon Nuclear Power, announcing intent to build two to three 1,350 MWe Advanced Boiling Water Reactors (ABWR) on both of Horizon's sites.

Orion Electric

Currently, Orion manufactures LCD/LED televisions and combo TVs for Hitachi and JVC, based on each company's OEM orders.

Price fixing cases

The European Commission has handed out a massive €750 million in fines to Siemens, Alstrom, Areva, Schneider and Japanese firms Fuji, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba and Japan AE Systems.

Pye Ltd.

In the early 1970s Sony and Hitachi launched UK colour televisions that cost less than £200.

Ruth Wanjiru

Wanjiru spent her early career in Japan, running for Hitachi, then Second Wind AC and regularly competed on the road circuit there.

São Paulo Railway

The locomotives for this changeover had been constructed by Hitachi with the help of SLM and are working with 3 kV DC supplied by an overhead lines.

Shuhei Nishida

After graduation from Waseda University, he obtained a job at Hitachi.

Silsesquioxane

Extensive research on silsesquioxanes as semiconductors, insulators and organic light emitting diodes (OLED) has been done by many companies and Universities, including Dow Corning, IBM, Honeywell, Japan Rubber Co, Hitachi, Mayaterials, Hybrid Plastics, University of Michigan and University of California-Irvine.

The Hitachi Foundation

The Hitachi Foundation also joined with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to launch Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work Based Learning for Quality Care.

Another major portion of The Hitachi Foundation’s Business and Communities Grants Program is its focus on Corporate Citizenship (also see: Corporate social responsibility).

Tōyō Rapid 2000 series

A total of 11 10-car sets were built between 2004 and 2006 by Hitachi It was based on the Tokyo Metro 05 series 13th-batch (sets 05-140 to 05-143) design, but features a different headlight arrangement.

Vision Racing

In 2007 the team expanded to three cars with the addition of A. J. Foyt IV and picked up Hitachi, Lowe's and Joost as sponsors.

Yumi Maruyama

After she attended Shoin Junior and Senior High School, she joined Hitachi Ltd. where she became a captain of the team in 1979.


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