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Western Digital shares rose 10% on the news. The split will leave the data storage products maker with its traditional hard-disk drive business and create two publicly traded firms, giving into ...
Japan's top banks are set to commit to 1.9 trillion yen ($12.7 billion) financing to support the merger of Kioxia Holdings and Western Digital's flash memory business, four people familiar with ...
Most of that industry has vanished through bankruptcy or mergers and acquisitions. None of the first several entrants (including IBM, who invented the HDD) continue in the industry today. Only three manufacturers have survived—Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital (WD)—all of which grew at least in part through mergers and acquisitions. [1]
TOKYO (Reuters) -Merger talks between Western Digital and Japan's Kioxia Holdings have stalled, two sources said on Friday, as opposition from Kioxia investor SK Hynix has complicated the on-again ...
The company was founded in 1988 as SunDisk Corporation and renamed in 1995 as SanDisk Corporation; [2] then renamed to SanDisk LLC in 2016 when it was acquired by Western Digital. [3] The company changed its name back to Sandisk Corporation (now with the lowercase "D"), as the result of the planned spin-off from Western Digital, that will occur ...
Western Digital-branded successors are 3.5-inch variants of WD Blue and Black HDDs, and for Deskstar NAS drives also WD Red. Travelstar – Mobile-class line in 2.5-inch form factor with SATA interfaces. Phased out after discontinuation of HGST brand. Western Digital-branded successors are 2.5-inch variants of WD Blue and Black HDDs.
The merger talks, which have continued on and off since 2021, stalled in October because SK Hynix opposed the deal, citing the potential impact on the value of its investment in the Japanese company.
Western Digital labeled these 8 MB models as "Special Edition" and distinguished them with the JB code (the 2 MB models had the BB code). The first 8 MB cache drive was the 100 GB WD1000JB, followed by other models starting with 40 GB capacity. Western Digital advertised the JB models for cost-effective file servers. In October 2001, Western ...