Rumors of Kioxia and Western Digital’s intentions to merge assets related to the release of solid-state storage first surfaced back in 2021, but then disagreements arose during negotiations over the valuation of the two parties’ business...
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On March 26, Western Digital reported a serious information security incident in its corporate network, which affected the developer’s and customers’ data and also caused a number of problems in the operation of the company’s...
Western Digital Corporation is unique in that it is also a major manufacturer of platter hard drives and solid state drives. Both market segments didn’t perform very well last quarter, resulting in a 36% year-over-year decline in the...
At the end of March, Western Digital, an American data storage manufacturer, had to declare that it had been the victim of a hacker attack that stole some of the information from the company’s cloud services. After a number of the...
reportedKioxia and WD will present a paper on today’s most advanced 300+ layer 3D NAND memory at the upcoming 2023 VLSI Symposium in June. Technologies will also be presented that will increase the speed of flash memories, for which a number...
Cybercriminals who hacked into Western Digital (WD) resources and stole sensitive data in late March 2023 released screenshots of internal emails and other documents, which they say indicate the company’s efforts to resolve the incident are...
The drop in demand for computer components and the drop in solid state drive prices could only affect the hard drive market and the Trendfocus statistics published by the resource Tom’s hardware, allows us to assess the quantitative...
As a result of a recent hacking attack on Western Digital’s network resources, more than 10 TB of service and user information is said to have been stolen. resource TechCrunch managed to communicate with the alleged organizers of this attack...
Almost a week has passed since Western Digital had to block the My Cloud service for security reasons – a cyber attack was to blame. The measure affected network-attached storage (NAS) of several series, but the problem is not fatal –...
Hackers hacked Western Digital servers and stole data – My Cloud cloud service is partially disabled
Hackers hacked Western Digital’s servers and stole data. The maker of hard drives, solid state drives, flash drives, and other storage devices has temporarily disabled its My Cloud service to prevent further leaks. Image source: Mika...
Kioxia and Western Digital announced 3D NAND flash memory chips with 218 layers with a capacity of 1 Tbit. Chips are manufactured on both three-bit cells (TLC) and four-bit cells (QLC). According to the developers, the chips have the highest bit...
Western Digital reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2023 ended December 31, 2022 for the calendar year. The company’s revenue for the period was $3.11 billion, at the top of the forecast range. Image source: Western...
Western Digital introduced the 20TB Ultrastar DC HS760 hard drive. The new product is the first WD hard drive to use two independent head assemblies, delivering twice the sequential read/write speed and almost double the random read/write...
It was knownWestern Digital has received a number of patents covering the combination of hard disk and tape drive designs and mechanisms. We are talking about embedded tape drives (LTO), which can accommodate hard disk components. Such drives can...
The restructuring of Western Digital Corporation, which implies the separation of the solid-state memory business, has long been discussed at the rumor level. According to sources Bloomberg, a deal with Kioxia could take place in the coming months...
Corresponding Bloomberg Citing informed sources, Western Digital resumed merger talks with solid-state storage maker Kioxia late last year. Under the existing plan, the companies can merge and maintain their presence on the exchange in a new status...
