In the turbulent HDD industry due to the sale of Hitachi, this time it is reported that "Samsung's HDD business will be sold"

Over the past few years talks have been raised several times, finallyHitachi officially announces the sale of HDD business to Western Digital in MarchAlthough the HDD industry is experiencing a turbulent appearance, this time, a news report "Samsung's HDD business will be sold" was done.

Details are as below.
Samsung Seeks to Unload Hard-Disk-Drive Business - WSJ.com

According to the report of the American economic newspaper The Wall Street Journal, market participants said that Samsung is considering selling the deficit HDD division. This is done to earn money for the company to actively invest in new growth areas, which is estimated to reduce revenue in the first quarter of 2011.

Although Samsung is considering selling the HDD division at 1.5 billion dollars (about 124.4 billion yen), market participants pointed out that the selling price may be less than 1 billion dollars (about 82.9 billion yen), We are planning to sell the Seagate, a leading HDD manufacturer, but Seagate spokesperson refuses to comment.

Although sales of tablet devices such as "iPad" which adopted flash memory as a recording medium are showing strong sales, this has led to pressures on sales of laptop computers, which are large customers of HDD, The situation surrounding the company is strict, despite securing a market share of 11%, Samsung's HDD business seems to have been in the red.

Incidentally, by acquiring Hitachi's HDD business, Western Digital will occupy about 50% market share, but Seagate's market share will stay at 29% (the fourth quarter of 2010, iSuppli survey), and if When Seagate acquired Samsung's HDD business, the share is expected to be about 40%, and it is thought that HDD manufacturers will enter the two strong era of Western Digital and Seagate.