Originally Posted by y_p_w
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
Found a whole ancient slashdot thread on it!
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/02/1...arddrives-been-failing-in-record-numbers
And yeah, looks like it was all drives in that family in 5,400RPM that shared the Cirrus Logic chip on the board.
That was a long, long time ago. Cirrus Logic exited that market around 2001, although I believe they still were dealing with liabilities well into about 2003. Western Digital sued them and lost.
A former coworker of mine worked in that division. Said it was a steady source of income for the company, but they had a new direction for the company where they wanted to go for higher profit margin businesses only. That was probably the last of their legacy businesses. By then they had moved their headquarters to Texas from Silicon Valley and were really concentrating on the businesses (mostly audio ICs) of their Crystal Semiconductor purchase. I used to work in Fremont, and I can't even recognize where the old Cirrus Logic buildings used to be. I think a few were torn down.
I recall Cirrus Logic quite well from when I was much, much younger. Their graphics cards for example. They were a big name in the "value" chipset segment, not unlike many other names from various (or multiple) segments that we don't see anymore: ALI, Trident, Hercules, High-Point, SiS...etc