Submit a Story!

Toshiba wants Fujitsu's hard drive business

 
According to reports in the Financial Times and elsewhere, Toshiba has made an offer of around US$340 million to $450 million to acquire Fujitsu's hard-drive manufacturing division. Competitor Western Digital was previously said to be interested in acquiring the business. (link)

Tags:

Related Content
WD's mammoth 2TB drive to launch this week
fudzilla.com 1/14/2009 — Home WD's mammoth 2TB drive to launch this week Print E-mail Written by Peter Scott Monday, 12 January 2009 19:01 Image It's never enough Western Digital will launch its 2TB hard drive later this week, and it should be available immediately. The ...
Western Digital to ship 2TB Caviar Green hdd this week?
slashgear.com 1/14/2009 — Leak hints Western Digital is set to unveil its 2TB version Caviar Green, the WD20EADS, possibly by the end of the week. We are taking about a 3.5-inch format hdd with 500GB per platter design here, squeezing 2TB of capacity onto one single disk ...
Toshiba’s develops imaging software that can more accurately identify human forms
crunchgear.com 1/14/2009 — Toshiba has developed a new kind of image-analyzing algorithm to detect persons in photographs with double the speed of existing software. The company claims the software is able to identify human forms against difficult backgrounds, such as dark ...
Western Digital about to ship 2TB Caviar Green hard drive?
engadget.com 1/14/2009 — Western Digital has known that Seagate was toiling away in hopes of being the first to market with a standalone 2TB hard drive, and evidently it has chosen to work its engineers that much harder. In a presumed effort to beat Hitachi (and everyone ...
Seagate Layoffs Grow From 800 to 3,000
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 1/15/2009 — On Wednesday, Seagate said it will lay off 3,000 workers worldwide, up from the 800 U.S. cuts it announced Monday.
Sony rallies chums round proprietary standardThe Register 1/12/2009
Hands up who wants TransferJet! Anyone? Sony has been telling anyone who will listen that its personal variant of Ultra Wide Band is the way of the future, and at CES has convinced Toshiba to go public and join with various camera manufacturers in ...
Toshiba shows alternatives to iPhone, NetbookCNET News.com 1/12/2009
At the Consumer Electronics Show, Toshiba was showing prototypes that offer different takes on iPhone- and Netbook-like devices.
Hello Tosh, wanna a disk business?The Register 1/14/2009
Fujitsu may sell part of HHD business to Toshiba Having failed to sell of its hard disk drive business to Western Digital Fujitsu is now trying to sell part of it to Toshiba. The result would be the world's largest supplier of 2.5-inch drives.…
Western Digital Said to be Readying 2TB Green Hard DriveI4U News 1/14/2009
In the computer industry, there are lots of things that companies fight to have the most or least of. For instance, CPU makers battled for years over who had the most GHz in their processors. Laptop maker's fight over who has the thinnest and ...