According to foreign media reports, Western Digital (WDC) Group for $86.50 per share, the total equity value of about $19 billion, the acquisition of flash memory chip manufacturer SanDisk (SanDisk). This move will surely set off an uproar in the storage industry and re-divide the industrial pattern.

It is not clear whether Western Digital and Micron are in a consortium to buy Sandisk, but there must be a Chinese element of Unisplendour, which recently spent $3.8 billion to buy 15% of Western Digital shares. Otherwise, Western Digital alone will not be able to pay for the huge acquisition of $19 billion.

Western Digital is a traditional mechanical hard disk manufacturer. In recent years, the flash memory industry has made rapid progress, and flash memory products represented by flash disks and SSD solid state drives have become more and more popular with consumers. Western Digital previously acquired a lot of Flash business, but has always lacked the most core flash wafer production line, the acquisition of flash chip manufacturer SanDisk (SanDisk), is to improve the core flash production line.

Why Ziguang bought into Western Digital, mainly focused on all the ecology of storage, including traditional disks (that is, traditional hard disks) and Flash (Flash drives and SSDS, etc.), especially Flash in the future of enterprise storage play a huge advantage. Secondly, in order to achieve greater benefits, resources are integrated and market value is increased.

After the acquisition, the ranking of the mechanical hard disk industry will not change in the short term, and Western Data will sit on the top seat; Western Digital will emerge as a new force in the flash industry, and we will also see Western Digital SSD and flash as the medium of Western digital mobile hard drives.