This IDC study examines the performance and market share of vendors in the hard disk drive (HDD) semiconductor market during 2005. Overall revenue market shares by vendor are included, as are splits by chip type and hard drive form factor. Chip types covered include hard drive controllers, read channel, system on a chip (SoC), preamplifier, and motor controller. Form factors covered include enterprise, desktop, and mobile.

"The hard disk drive semiconductor market grew 18.3% to $3.41 billion in 2005, growth that exceeded the growth of the entire semiconductor market because of the HDD market's high exposure to the PC market, which grew more than expected in each quarter of the year." ? Shane Rau, program manager, PC and Storage Semiconductors