Optical disc drive manufacturers are facing yet another shortage of pick-up heads (PUHs). According to DigiTimes, the latest shortage is because Sanyo Electric, Hitachi, Sony and Sharp have not expanded the production of ODD PUHs to meet the growing demand for notebooks and desktops.
The global supply of pick-up heads (PUHs) used in optical disc drives (ODDs) has fallen into considerable short supply, which will not ease until the end of the second quarter, according to Taiwan ODD industry sources. The short supply is because Japan-based Sanyo Electric, Hitachi, Sony and Sharp, which together account for almost all of the global production of ODD PUHs, have not expanded output to meet the growing global demand for notebooks and desktops since early 2009, the sources said.
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