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GREEN LIGHT FOR PROPOSED
ACQUISITION BY WESTERN DIGITAL
CORPORATION OF SANDISK
CORPORATION
MANUFACTURING
| ACQUISITION
Case Team Members
Harikumar Pillay
Qiu Huixiang
LimWei Lu
Jayme Leong
On 20 January 2016, CCS cleared the
proposed acquisition of sole control by
Western Digital Corporation (“WDC”)
of SanDisk Corporation (“SanDisk”)
(collectively the “Parties”).
Both Par ties are involved in the
manufacture and supply of digital
storage solutions. WDC produces hard
disk drives (“HDDs”) for a number of
uses
[1]
, along with external and business
storage solutions. SanDisk, on the other
hand, specialises in flash memory
solutions
[2]
along with producing
flash storage solutions for enterprise
datacentres and client computing
plat forms, and storage solution
software used in its consumer products.
CCS has determined that the only area
of overlap, both globally and within
Singapore, was in the supply of Enterprise
Solid State Drives (“SSDs”). For the
purposes of themerger assessment, CCS
considered the relevant market as that
for the global supply of interface-specific
Enterprise SSDs
[3]
to customers globally
as different interfaces help determine
the functionalities and performance of
Enterprise SSDs (the “Relevant Market”).
[4]
CCS reviewed the Parties’ submissions
and f eedback f rom cus tomers
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