Seagate and SK Hynix will form a joint venture dedicated
to developing SSDs for enterprise servers and data centers, according to
industry sources.
The joint venture will combine
Seagate's expertise in hard disk drives with SK Hynix' complete embedded
flash and SSD solutions to create a new player in the enterprise SSD
market, which is currently dominated by Samsung and Intel, said the
sources.
Western Digital earlier in 2016 completed its
acquisition of SanDisk making the pair the first camp consolidating
their respective areas of expertise, Western Digital's in HDD and
SanDisk in SSD, the sources noted. Seagate and SK Hynix are expected to
follow suit by forming a joint venture.
SK Hynix
previously acquired California-based Link_A_Media Devices (LAMD), a
developer of memory-chip controllers, which has already improved its
competitiveness in the SSD field by releasing products equipped with its
in-house developed controller chips, the sources identified. SK Hynix
plans to have its controller design team consolidated into the new
company, while Seagate will transfer part of its technical team to the
entity, the sources said.
In other news, Silicon Motion
Technology has entered the supply chain of the Alibaba Group by
providing the e-commerce company SSD solutions, the sources noted.
Silicon Motion previously acquired Shannon Systems, a China-based
supplier of enterprise-class PCIe SSD and storage array solutions, which
is helping the memory controller device supplier expand its presence in
China, the sources said.
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