On Monday, Western Digital announced it had acquired SiliconSystems Inc. in a $65 million cash deal. The new deal will give WD the means with which to form its own solid
state disk (SSD) product divisions; effective immediately, SiliconSystems will be known as the WD Solid-State Storage business. SiliconSystems is a bit of a dark horse as far as an
acquisition target goes; the company was founded in 2003 and has focused on building business relationships with the Enterprise System OEM market.
According to the company,
“SiliconDrive products are designed to exceed the rigorous demands of applications in the netcom, industrial, embedded computing, data center, military and medical markets.”
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