Western Digital Corporation could strengthen its position in the market of SSDs due to the purchase of SanDisk and several other related asset acquisitions, and Seagate in this area relies on the experience of SK Hynix.
The development team in a joint venture will strengthen the natives of LAMD, SK Hynix bought a while ago. In turn, Seagate also share the specialists to create a more competitive SSD controllers. It is expected that the joint Seagate and SK Hynix, the company will compete not only WDC / SanDisk, but Intel and Samsung, whose strong position in the corporate segment of the market.
In the same note refers to the conclusion of the company Silicon Motion Technology contract with Alibaba, in which the first will provide a second server-class SSDs. The scale of the Chinese giant attract those market participants that are playing an increasing role in other regions would have spent too much energy. Accelerators calculations for Alibaba going to deliver AMD, as CPUs with ARM architecture may be registered in some parts of the server equipment of this Chinese company.