REAL WINNERS FROM WESTERN DIGITAL (WDC) ACQUISITION ARE MARVELL TECHNOLOGY (MRVL) AND SEAGATE (STX)
Western Digital (WDC), the largest player in the disk drive business, announced acquisition of the number three player Hitachi GST (HIT). The real winners are not Western Digital or Hitachi, but two other companies.
Seagate Technology
Seagate Technology (STX) is the second largest hard disk manufacturer with about 30% market share. Western Digital and Hitachi combined will have about 48% market share.
Many of the large buyers of the hard drives, as a matter of policy, insist on a second source. The purpose of this policy is to maintain leverage against the vendors and not be severely impacted by supply chain disruptions at one vendor.… Please click here or the title below to read more.