{"id":6075,"date":"2009-03-30T09:47:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T13:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/37413cf2ac56f19c2df28e162026a691"},"modified":"2009-03-30T09:47:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T13:47:54","slug":"western-digital-enters-solid-state-drive-market-by-acquiring-siliconsystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=6075","title":{"rendered":"Western Digital Enters Solid-State Drive Market By Acquiring SiliconSystems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western Digital today announced that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc., a leading supplier of solid-state drives for the embedded systems market. Integration into WD begins immediately, with SiliconSystems now becoming known as the WD Solid-State Storage business unit, complementing WDs existing Branded Products, Client Storage, Consumer Storage and Enterprise Storage business units. Todays acquisition strengthens and accelerates WD&#39;s ability to get to market with additional SSD products this is a very good move as SSD&#39;s are starting to take off and are seen as the replacement to hard drives. <center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/news\/2009\/siliconsystems.jpg\" alt=\"SiliconSystems, Inc. Logo\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are delighted to have the SiliconSystems team join WD, said John Coyne, president and CEO of WD. The combination will be modestly accretive to revenue and margins as a result of SiliconSystems existing position as a trusted supplier to the well-established $400 million market for embedded solid-state drives. SiliconSystems intellectual property and technical expertise will significantly accelerate WDs solid-state drive development programs for the netbook, client and enterprise markets, providing greater choice for our customers to satisfy all their storage requirements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Digital today announced that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc., a leading supplier of solid-state drives for the embedded systems market. Integration into WD begins immediately, with SiliconSystems now becoming known as the WD Solid-State Storage business unit, complementing WDs existing Branded Products, Client Storage, Consumer Storage and Enterprise Storage business units. Todays acquisition strengthens and accelerates WD&#39;s ability to get to market with additional SSD products this is a very good move as SSD&#39;s are starting to take off and are seen as the replacement to hard drives. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/news\/2009\/siliconsystems.jpg\" alt=\"SiliconSystems, Inc. Logo\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are delighted to have the SiliconSystems team join WD, said John Coyne, president and CEO of WD. The combination will be modestly accretive to revenue and margins as a result of SiliconSystems existing position as a trusted supplier to the well-established $400 million market for embedded solid-state drives. SiliconSystems intellectual property and technical expertise will significantly accelerate WDs solid-state drive development programs for the netbook, client and enterprise markets, providing greater choice for our customers to satisfy all their storage requirements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=6075\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}