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Fujifilm To Bost Tape Production 5x As AI Fuels Archiving Demand

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its production capacity fivefold for an unlikely beneficiary of the AI era: magnetic tape.

  • Fujifilm aims to quintuple magnetic tape production capacity.
  • Expansion at Kanagawa Factory in Odawara to begin 2026-2028.
  • Tape storage favored for cost-effective large data protection.

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