Headway Technologies designs and manufactures recording heads for high-performance hard disk drives. It serves clients, such as Fujitsu, Hitachi, Maxtor and Toshiba and has more than 600 employees. The company, founded in 1994, is a subsidiary of TDK Corporation. Headway Technologies magneto-resistive recording heads utilize inductive write heads based on the inductive principles of earlier technologies combined with magneto-resistive elements to provide read functions.