Memory giant Western Digital has confirmed the date for the planned separation of its flash business, set to complete on February 21, 2025, according to its press release. Western Digital currently oversees two main divisions, the hard disk drives (HDD) and flash. A previous report from Blocks an...

Ahead of Western Digital’s upcoming spin-off, a major personnel shake-up has already taken place, as the memory giant's Executive Vice President and General Manager, Robert Soderbery, who leads the NAND and SSD business unit, will step down on January 2, according to a report from Blocks and Files...

According to the reports from EETimes China and Blocks &Files, Western Digital (WD) is said to be considering spinning off its NAND and SSD business, which could be valued similarly to Solidigm. Reportedly, WD plans to split into two separate business units: one focused on producing hard...

Japanese NAND flash giant Kioxia announced today (August 1st) that the building construction of Fab2 (K2) of its Kitakami Plant in Iwate Prefecture was completed in July. As demand is recovering, the company will gradually make capital investments while closely monitoring flash memory market trends....

Recently, Korean SSD controller manufacturer FADU announced a partnership with Western Digital to co-develop the next-generation enterprise SSD technology called "FDP (Flexible Data Placement)." FDP is a standard technology proposed by the Open Compute Project (OCP) and is a newly approved NVMe s...