Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

January 9, according to foreign media reports, it was reported last week that although Western Digital's plan to buy armour Man for about 20 billion US dollars was cancelled due to opposition from Japan, there is still a possibility of a deal between the two companies. they resumed merger negotiations at the end of last year.

But for the merger between the two companies, some experts believe that the actual hope is slim and unlikely to be completed.

According to foreign media reports, experts believe that there is little hope for the merger between Western Digital and Armor, mainly because the storage semiconductor industry has attracted so much attention in recent years, and storage semiconductors have become a key industry in a country. Therefore, experts generally believe that it is difficult for the merger of the two companies to be approved by the relevant institutions.

Just as it was reported in August last year that Western Digital's plan to buy Knight-errant for about $20 billion was cancelled due to opposition from Japan, analysts do not expect Japan to give up on Knight-errant. At present, the majority shareholder of Xia Xia is a consortium of South Korean, American and Japanese companies, and there is no reason for the United States to risk pushing for a merger when American companies have become major shareholders.

In addition, although foreign media did not mention it in the report, as two important NAND flash memory manufacturers in the world, the merger of Western Digital and Xia Xia will change the pattern of the global NAND flash memory industry, and will also face great challenges in antitrust regulation, and may not be approved.

In the third quarter of last year, Shexia was the world's second-largest manufacturer of NAND flash memory, with a market share of 20.6 per cent, while Western Digital was the fourth-largest supplier with a market share of 12.6 per cent, according to research institutions.

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