Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Western Digital.
The Japanese manufacturer of NAND memory chips and SSDs, Kioxia, may yet be talking to Western Digital (WD) again about a possible merger of their NAND/SSD units. Also, the majority shareholder, Bain Capital, is said to want to give guarantees to fellow stakeholder SK Hynix. About half a year af... Read more
3 months ago
The proposed merger of the NAND flash memory divisions of Kioxia and Western Digital is now off the table. Talks on this merger have been halted by Western Digital due to the lack of approval from Kioxia shareholder SK Hynix. According to Nikkei Asia, Western Digital broke off talks with Kioxia ... Read more
6 months ago
SK Hynix does not approve the merger of Kioxia and Western Digital. SK Hynix, an indirect shareholder in Kioxia, views the merger as unfavorable to the value of its investments. Recently, Japan's Kioxia and U.S. Western Digital announced plans to merge their NAND flash memory businesses. With th... Read more
6 months ago
Kioxia and Western Digital (WD) want to merge their memory chip operations into a new company. Nikkei Asia reports that the parties want to combine their forces in order to compete with market leader Samsung. According to Nikkei Asia, Japanese company Kioxia and the US-based Western Digital want... Read more
6 months ago
Western Digital (WD) has been sued in the U.S. for failing WD SanDisk 2TB Extreme Pro SSDs. Several other models also allegedly suffer from the underlying issues that cause these devices to fail. Moreover, WD recently issued an update that only exacerbates the problem. According to the plaintif... Read more
8 months ago
Western Digital is coming out with enhancements to its OpenFlex platform for data centers. The company says customers are increasingly leaning toward NVMe over fabric (NVMe-oF) as a fast storage solution, for example, to accelerate AI workloads. The storage company is enhancing data center offer... Read more
9 months ago
The US hardware giant gave us an update on the extent of the damage done in the recent cyberattack. Last Friday Western Digital (WDC) issued an official "update" on the results of the cyberattack the company had suffered in March. Calling the attack a "network security incident", the San Jose... Read more
12 months ago
Storage vendor Western Digital has been the latest company to be hit by hackers. Some ten terabytes of data, including extensive customer information, have reportedly fallen into the wrong hands. The perpetrators demand at least $10 million to stop the data from being published. One of the hacke... Read more
1 year ago
In a recent announcement, Western Digital revealed that it has fallen victim to a cyber-attack that has caused the company to shut down some of its systems. The data storage firm reported that it detected a network security incident on March 26th involving an unauthorized third party gaining acc... Read more
1 year ago
Western Digital recently expanded its primarily consumer-oriented My Book storage portfolio with a model that offers 22 TB of storage. Also available is a more robust My Book Duo that has a capacity of no less than 44 TB. According to Western Digital, the 22 TB My Book now features the largest a... Read more
1 year ago
