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Read-Rite Corporation is the world's leading independent supplier of recording heads, head gimbal assemblies and head stack assemblies for disk drives, and of magnetoresistive heads for tapes drives. Our current products incorporate advanced inductive and magnetoresistive (MR) technologies and we are developing future generations of MR heads based on giant MR technology.
Headquartered in Milpitas, California, we have manufacturing operations here and in nearby Fremont and San Jose, as well as in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore.
Read-Rite employs some 23,000 persons and produced revenues of approximately $1 billion in fiscal 1996.