Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Seagate acquires division of Samsung storage

As we already reported yesterday, taking a story from the Wall Street Journal, Seagate acquired the division of Samsung storage for a total of 1.375 billion dollars paid half in cash and half in shares of Seagate. The sale was also an opportunity to make additional agreements between the two realities: It 's been extended and improved the existing arrangement of cross-licensing of patents' signed an agreement for the supply of NAND flash from Samsung and Seagate will use in its SSD enterprise, hybrid discs and other products' signed an additional supply agreement under which Seagate will provide Samsung drives for PCs, notebooks and consumer electronics devices of the latter The sale is expected to close by the end year leaving only tire main players: Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba.

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