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SanDisk Acquires Pliant Technology For $327 Million
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) has acquired Pliant Technology for $327 million in cash and equity based incentives. Pliant is a developed of solid state drives (SSD). “Flash memory is making significant inroads into the enterprise by dramatically increasing application performance and reducing power consumption,” stated SanDisk president and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. “We believe that the combination of Pliant’s innovative technology and enterprise-level system expertise with SanDisk’s high-quality, large-scale MLC memory production is a winning value proposition for customers. Our advanced flash technology roadmap and flash management capability will complement Pliant’s strengths and allow us to lead the way in reliability and performance in the Enterprise SSD market.”
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SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I Memory Card Can Read and Write At 45MB/Sec
The SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I memory card is ready for the SD 3.0 specification with read and write speeds of up to 45MB/second. The Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I works well with digital SLRs that are capable of shooting full HD 1080p video. The speed and stability of the little card has an intelligent Power Core controller and an error-code correction engine. The SDHC card is waterproof, shock-proof, x-ray proof, magnet proof, temperature proof (-13ºF to 185ºF) and vibration proof. The 8GB card costs $109.99 and the 32GB card costs $349.99.
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SanDisk SD WORM Card Can Store Photos For At Least 100 Years
SanDisk has started shipping an SD card called the WORM (write once read many) that can write once and store images and data for at least 100 years. SanDisk sold its WORM SD card to Japan’s National Polcie so far.
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SanDisk slotRadio Begins Shipping On March 31
The SanDisk slowRadio player is hitting the digital music market by the end of the month. The features look pretty obvious from the design. It looks like a standard MP3 player with an LCD. However there is a microSD card slot in this gadget. It will be available on SanDisk’s website on March 31st for $99. The price includes a card that can hold over one thousand songs. Not a bad price for a new gadget on the market.
[via Engadget]
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Toshiba & Samsung Rumored To Be Launching Takeover Bid For SanDisk
Samsung Electronics and Toshiba are rumored to be making a bid to buy out memory drive company SanDisk. The rumors originated from EETimes. Both are making simultaneous bids. Last year Samsung made a hostile takeover bid for SanDisk, but ended discussion without making an agreement.
Toshiba is currently a partner in manufacturing flash storage with SanDisk already. Toshiba is also a current shareholder in SanDisk.
Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis believes SanDisk won’t be acquired because the company is reportedly seeking $60 per share for a buy-out. Samsung is said to be only offering $25 per share.
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SanDisk Announces SlotMusic, A New Way Of Distributing Music
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) has announced today that they are working on a new way to sell music. Four of the major music labels are backing the initiative which is called SlotMusic. SlotMusic will contain full albums distributed through a MicroSD memory card. Wal-Mart and Best Buy are a couple of the first retailers that will be selling the SlotMusic.
Is the compact disc becoming obsolete? I’d say not yet for the time being because I have not seen any cars in the U.S. supporting MicroSD as a way to play music. And in my car is where I get the majority of my music-listening time. The MP3s in SlotMusic will not have DRM. The four labels participating in the new form of music distribution is Universal, Sony BMG, EMI, and Warner Music Group. The initial release of SlotMusic will be 29 albums from artists like Ne-Yo, Rihanna, Robin Thicke, Weezer, Usher, Chris Brown, Akon, Elvis Presley, etc. SlotMusic will be sold for about $7-$10.
This feature may become popular for those who prefer to use their mobile devices (excluding the iPhone) as their personal MP3 player. Most smartphones have a MicroSD card reader.
Best Buy launches digital music store – why?
Best Buy (Best Buy Co., Inc) has partnered with Real Networks’ Rhapsody and SanDisk to launch a digital music store. It will also start selling the SanDisk Sansa e200R Rhapsody digital music player which will play songs downloaded through its music store. Best Buy plans to compete with Apple’s iTunes and Microsoft’s Zune through this new service. It also plans to make sure its employees promote the service to customers. It looks like Best Buy will charge $14.99 a month for a subscription service and .99 cents for single track downloads. I for one do not think we need another retail digital music store. This has failure written all over it.
Best buy will essentially be competing with itself because it already carries a line of Apple iPods and will carry the Microsoft Zune which comes out this holiday season. I am not sure how Apple or Microsoft, who have their own digital music stores, feel about this move. I think that Best Buy needs to stick to what it does best – sell electronics. Going into the digital music business is bad news for a retailer. This service will most likely fail before it ever gains any traction.
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