Hard drive manufacturer Western Digital announced this morning that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SanDisk, a competitor focused on flash storage. The agreement values SanDisk at $19 billion, which Western Digital will pay for in a mixture of cash and stock. The deal will allow Western Digital to better compete in the storage market by giving it access to SanDisk’s flash products, whereas its existing line still leans heavily on slower hard disk drives.

Western Digital, uno de los mayores fabricantes de discos duros del mundo, se hará con SanDisk, la tercera firma más importante en el desarrollo de chips de memoria. El coste de la operación será de 19.000 millones de dólares, cerca de 17.000 millones de euros al cambio.

El interés de los consumidores en los discos duros tradicionales está descendiendo al mismo tiempo que el precio de las unidades SSD, un terreno en el que SanDisk se desenvuelve con soltura. La compra de SanDisk no solo permitirá a Western Digital entrar de lleno en este mercado, por tanto, sino que es crítica para su propia supervivencia a largo plazo.

Punto MagazineNoticiasdisk drives,sandisk,Western DigitalHard drive manufacturer Western Digital announced this morning that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SanDisk, a competitor focused on flash storage. The agreement values SanDisk at $19 billion, which Western Digital will pay for in a mixture of cash and stock. The deal will allow Western...El Blog de los Fotografos y los Videografos