Seagate, Samsung combine hard-drive units in $1.4B deal
Seagate and Samsung are now one, in terms of their hard disk divisions at least - is this a moment for celebration or disappointment?
Wow. Looks like the Wall Street Journal was more or less right on the money yesterday. Seagate and Samsung have announced a "broad strategic alignment," as part of which Seagate will take over Samsung's hard-drive operations in exchange for a cool $1.375 billion (paid half in cash, half in Seagate stock).
There's quite a bit more to this deal than just Samsung's HDD business changing hands, though. Here's a list of the "major elements of the agreement," in the two companies' words:
The Tech Report has the details.There's quite a bit more to this deal than just Samsung's HDD business changing hands, though. Here's a list of the "major elements of the agreement," in the two companies' words:
- Samsung combining its hard disk drive (HDD) operations into Seagate
- Extending and enhancing the existing patent cross-license agreement between the companies
- A NAND flash memory supply agreement under which Samsung will provide Seagate with its market-leading semiconductor products for use in Seagate’s enterprise solid state drives (SSDs), solid state hybrid drives and other products
- A disk drive supply agreement under which Seagate will supply disk drives to Samsung for PCs, notebooks and consumer electronics
- Expanded cooperation between the companies to co-develop enterprise storage solutions
- Samsung receiving significant equity ownership in Seagate
- A shareholder agreement under which an executive of Samsung will be nominated to join Seagate’s Board of Directors
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Intel's Ivy Bridge graphics to feature DX11, triple-display support
Although Sandy Bridge is still well and truly in the spotlight, Intel are already talking about their next-generation Ivy Bridge architecture - namely, the graphics component within it.
We have more graphics and multi-core samples coming, until they are a bit further along I don’t want to say too much, but you could expect post processing, texturing, terrain, that sort of thing
Ivy Bridge is going to be an exciting product. Not only does it continue with the improvements AVX processor SIMD vector capabilities D3D11 and DX Compute Shader, 30 percent more EUs ( execution units ) and supports up to 3 displays and HDMI 1.4a, and an overall bandwidth boost from PCIe 3.
The Tech Report has the story.Ivy Bridge is going to be an exciting product. Not only does it continue with the improvements AVX processor SIMD vector capabilities D3D11 and DX Compute Shader, 30 percent more EUs ( execution units ) and supports up to 3 displays and HDMI 1.4a, and an overall bandwidth boost from PCIe 3.
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Under the hood of Unreal Engine 3's next-gen features
We know that Unreal Engine 3 is due a DirectX 11 makeover that is currently in progress, but what new goodies will this bring to the table? Check out this video which guides you through all of the new features planned for the next iteration of Unreal Engine 3.
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