Micron(Crucial), Western Digital in buyout talks with SanDisk

[ShintaiDK]

Seems SanDisk may be bought out by both Micron(Crucial) and Western Digital.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/13/us-sandisk-m-a-micron-tech-idUSKCN0S72QL20151013

 

[PottedMeat]

weird

intel & micron have that 3d crosspoint whatever that nobody inside's talking about

hp & sandisk have their competing similar memory tech with no info
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015...-finally-bring-memristor-like-tech-to-market/

wonder how this would affect that

 

[Soulkeeper]

I believe SanDisk has a massive patent portfolio.
This would be a big event.

 

[MongGrel]

I believe SanDisk has a massive patent portfolio.
This would be a big event.

Yes it would be.

Seems to be a lot of massive buyouts going on lately.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Western Digital ended up buying SanDisk for 19 billion $.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/10/21/western-digital-acquires-sandisk-19b/74318512/

 

[maddogchen]

Good for Western Digital. They need to make the move to SSD

 

[lehtv]

19 billion? That must be in the top 5 of all time biggest tech acquisitions?

edit: I'm wondering if WD will transition its "blue", "black" etc. brands to SSD's. WD Black would be the Sandisk Extreme Pro equivalent.