Major Development and Manufacturing Locations

• San Jose, California
  Established: 1956
  Focus: HDD head and disk technology development and launch, HDD wafer and disk manufacturing, HDD development. HDD Research is conducted at the Hitachi San Jose Research Center.
• Odawara, Japan
  Established: 1966
  Focus: HDD development and production engineering.
• Fujisawa, Japan
  Established: 1972
  Focus: HDD development and launch, engineering support for OEM subsystems.
• Shenzhen, China
  Established: 1998
  Focus: HDD slider and head manufacturing.
• Laguna, Philippines
  Established: 1994
  Focus: HDD manufacturing.
• Prachinburi, Thailand
  Established: 1996
  Focus: Entry server and mobile HDD, HDD head stack assembly, HSA manufacturing.
• Rochester, Minnesota
  Established: 1956
  Focus: HDD electronics, development and support functions.
• HSPC, China
  Established: 1996
  Focus: HDD head gimbal assembly, HGA manufacturing.
• Singapore
  Global Center
  Established: 1994
  Focus: OEM marketing, production management center, manufacturing of high-end hard disk drives and HDD head stack assembly.
• HGSP, Shenzhen, China
  Established: 2006
  Focus: HDD manufacturing.