The leading independent maker of drives said its Quinta subsidiary has achieved the higher capacities by combining elements of today's standard disk drives _ which use magnetic heads to read data on disk platters _ with lasers that work with tiny mirrors and lenses to route data.
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Canon Electronics Inc . ( 7739 JP Equity ) : The producer of camera units and magnetic heads raised its current, or pretax, profit forecast 62 . 5 percent to 1 . 3 billion yen ( $ 11 . 11 million ) for the full year ending in December.
