Western Digital enters SSD market with acquisition of SiliconSystems
Of the major hard drive manufacturers, Western Digital was one of those who stayed away from the SSD business. But as the world, slowly and steadily, gets taken away by solid state disks Western Digital thought of being in. That’s why the firm recently acquired SiliconSystems, a supplier of solid-state drives for the embedded systems market for the sum of $65 million. Integration into WD begins immediately, with SiliconSystems now becoming known as the WD Solid-State Storage business unit, complementing WD’s existing Branded Products, Client Storage, Consumer Storage and Enterprise Storage business units.
