Report: Fujitsu to Sell HDD Business to Western Digital

[Steve R Jones]

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/151760/.html?tk=rss_news

Fujitsu is in talks to sell its hard-disk drive business to Western Digital, according to a report in the Thursday morning edition of the Nikkei business daily.

The two companies are in the latter stage of negotiations over the deal and hope to reach agreement before the end of this year, the report said. The proposed deal would see Fujitsu sell its entire hard-disk drive unit, including plants in Japan, the Philippines and Thailand that employ around 15,000 people, for between ¥70 billion to ¥100 billion (US$661 million to US$944 million), the newspaper reported.

[Shoreguy]

American company buying back the foreign market



OR



"We ran out of Chinese labor camps and South American sweatshop workers, so this is ideal"


???

[cdroman]

WD already has plants in Malaysia and Thailand. This would add plants in Japan and the Philippines, and Thailand. Should be interesting to see what happens to the existing Fujitsu jobs in Thailand. :)

[Train]

Gone with the wind probably!

[Midknyte]

Fujitsu makes a lot of SCSI/SAS drives for the enterprise market. Since WD has no SCSI/SAS drives, they could be obtaining Fujitsu as a way to break into that area.

Raptors are pretty fast, but they are no match for 15k rpm SAS drives.