Western Digital Acquires SiliconSystems, SSDs to Follow

Western Digital, a leading maker of the traditional hard drive, supposedly felt a little out of the loop as they still hadn’t really caught on to the solid-state disk bandwagon. Instead of playing a long game of catch-up, they simply forked out $65 million in cold cash and bought the technology they needed in the form of the aptly-named SiliconSystems, Inc. SiliconSystems has been making millions of SSDs for embedded systems for the past several years and will find a nice new home after integrating into the Western Digital Empire, henceforth being known as the “WD Solid-State Storage business unit.” Since they’re combining forces “immediately,” here’s to bigger and better SSDs in the near future.

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