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	December
	Hitachi Files Patent Infringement Complaint Against GS Magicstor Companies Tues 28 Dec, 2004 Hitachi One-Inch Hard Drive Turns Five Mon 13 Dec, 2004 Hitachi Announces Early RoHS Compliance Plans for its Hard Drive Products Wed 08 Dec, 2004

	November
	Hitachi Movie Visualizes Future Hard Drive Lifestyle Wed 17 Nov, 2004 Hitachi Joint Venture Ships 500 Millionth Hard Disk Drive Core Component from its Shenzhen Production Facility Wed 17 Nov, 2004 Hitachi Ships 150 Millionth Hard Disk Drive from Thai Production Base Tues 09 Nov, 2004 Hitachi and Saha-Union Celebrate 15 Years of Hard Disk Manufacturing Cooperation Tues 09 Nov, 2004 Hitachi Breaks Ground for Multi-Million Dollar China Disk Drive Mega-Manufacturing Center Tues 02 Nov, 2004

	October
	Hitachi unveils its new disk drive performance leader Tues 26 Oct, 2004 Hitachi Expands Distribution Network in Russia Mon 18 Oct, 2004 Roc Digital Chooses Hitachi Hard Drive for Sleek Size, High Capacity. Mon 04 Oct, 2004

	September
	Sun Microsystems Recognizes Hitachi For “Meritorious Performance” As Hard Drive Supplier Thur 30 Sept, 2004 Hitachi and HP Offer Industry-First High-Performance 300 Gigabyte Drives For Server and Storage Solutions Wed 29 Sept, 2004 Hitachi and Agilent Technologies establish new fibre channel performance benchmark Tues 21 Sept, 2004 Hitachi 100-Gigabyte Notebook Hard Drives Offer Advanced Feature Set For Broad Range Of End-User Needs Mon 13 Sept, 2004 Hitachi To Support New Consumer Electronic Interface On Future Hard Drives Thur 09 Sept, 2004 Hitachi Expands New Customer Support and Service Company for hard drives by establishing new Beijing branch. Wed 08 Sept, 2004

	August
	Hitachi Shrinks Hard Drive, Specialized for Consumer Devices Tues 31 Aug, 2004

	July
	Hitachi puts $100,000 up for grabs at worldwide PC gaming championships Wed 28 July, 2004

	June
	Hitachi to invest up to $500 million in new China disk drive mega-manufacturing center Mon 21 June, 2004 Hitachi appoints new Australian distributor Wed 16 June, 2004 Hitachi visionary honored with IEEE’s Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal Wed 16 June, 2004

	May
	Hitachi increases Microdrive production on demand for high-capacity digital music players Mon 17 May, 2004 Hitachi to sponsor world's largest PC gaming league Fri 14 May, 2004 Hitachi chooses new San Jose headquarters and R&D location Thur 13 May, 2004

	April
	Sesame Workshop library, including 35 years of Sesame Street programming, to be digitally preserved Wed 21 April, 2004 Hitachi site development plan envisions mixed-use, transit-oriented village Fri 09 April, 2004

	March
	Hitachi shows hard drive prowess without more storage capacity Tues 30 March, 2004 Hitachi establishes customer support and services company in China Fri 12 March, 2004 400GB hard drive makes Hitachi the capacity king Wed 10 March, 2004

	February
	Hitachi hard drive business beats profitability target before first birthday Wed 25 Feb, 2004 Hitachi unveils massive enterprise hard drive Wed 25 Feb, 2004 Hitachi to publicly demonstrate 2.5-inch serial attached SCSI drives at industry event Wed 25 Feb, 2004

	January
	Hitachi disk drives first to achieve 3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interoperability Wed 28 Jan, 2004 Hitachi Microdrive digital media stores five days of music on new creative digital audio player Thur 08 Jan, 2004 Hitachi hard drive chosen for new portable media center devices Thur 08 Jan, 2004 Hitachi sets new standard for enterprise hard disk drive performance with 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel demonstration Tues 06 Jan, 2004 Hitachi executive shows winning hand – reshaping traditional hard drive business to user-focused model Mon 05 Jan, 2004