Sony will end production of floppy disks next year due to dwindling demand, it said Monday.

Sony delivers floppy disk's last rites Electronics giant, which pioneered and dominated the market for the storage medium, announces it will cease Japanese sales of the disks in 2011.

Sony says it will stop selling floppy disks in 2011, signalling what could be the end of the venerable computer format.

The end of an icon approaches as Sony prepares to end production of the 3.5-inch floppy disk, made obsolete by networking technology and the rise of USB storage devices. The classic design is ...

Sony Announces the Death of the Floppy Disk Fully 12 years after the original G3 iMac dropped support for the 3.5-inch floppy disk, Sony has finally decided to stop making them.

Sony Group Corp. stopped making the disks in 2011 and many young people would struggle to describe how to use one or even identify one in the modern workplace.

Read how the floppy disk still has some use in several important industries despite being deemed obsolete.

Sony used to sell digital cameras that recorded on actual floppy disks. We’ve come a long way, but [Mathieu] put a floppy in a digital camera recently for an entirely different reason.

Hilarious new video shows a class of 10-year-olds trying to identify floppy disks, overhead projectors and cassette players - without much success.

It’s easy to see why floppy disk requirements became emblematic of this struggle: for a start, it’s a challenge just laying your hand on one in 2024.

Sony will end production of floppy disks next year due to dwindling demand, it said Monday.