In the wake of Seagate's completion of acquisition of Samsung Electronics' hard disc drive (HDD) business, industry observers believe the HDD industry will be dominated by Western Digital and Seagate in 2012.
Seagate pointed out that the acquisition will help the company gain access to Samsung HDD business' properties such as assets, business structure and employees, especially Samsung's leading M8 high-capacity 2.5-inch HDD production line.
Since European Commission has also recently conditionally approved Western Digital's acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), the resources of the future HDD industry will gradually be dominated by the two giants, the sources pointed out.
Article translated by Joseph Tsai
