Hitachi-LG Data Storage is Worlds Largest Optical Drive Manufacturer
Saturday, August 30, 2005

Digitimes has lists of the market-shares of optical disc drive manufacuters. The numbers are gathered by Techno Systems Research (TSR) and show that Hitachi-LG is currently the number one optical disc drive manufacturer. Second comes the joint venture of Toshiba and Samsung.

Top H/H ODD vendors, 1H 2005

Company
Shipments (million drives)
Y/Y
Global market share

Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS)
30.75
8.18%
32.01%

Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology (TSST)
21.00
29.87%
21.86%

Lite-On IT
17.60
(7.81%)
18.32%

PBDS (BenQ)
8.97
46.09%
9.34%

NEC
5.83
44.29%
6.07%

Pioneer
5.56
47.99%
5.79%

Asustek Computer
2.31
(38.56%)
2.40%

*Article courtesy o f Jan Willem and www.cdfreaks.com