History repeats itself and Samsung has once again shown interest in buying the world's largest memory card manufacturer, SanDisk. The company wanted to buy SanDisk for the first time in 2008 for $5,85 billion, but eventually withdrew from the offer. Now Samsung is considering the acquisition again, but warns that nothing is definite yet. The company first needs to think through other important aspects of the acquisition and, based on that, will judge whether buying out the memory card manufacturer is worth it or not.
On the one hand, we are not surprised, because SanDisk uses eMMC technology, which in terms of speed lags far behind the UFS storage standard used by Samsung in its flagships Galaxy S6 and Note 5. In addition, the technology is expected to enter cheaper devices over time. Investors and analysts are also concerned that the acquisition will not bring any profit to Samsung, precisely because of the advent of the UFS standard, where Samsung is also the leader. The company controls 40% of the entire SSD storage market. Other candidates who can buy SanDisk include Micron Technology, Tsinghua Unigroup and Western Digital. In the end, therefore, it is possible that the owner of SanDisk will be a company other than Samsung, and the chance that this will happen is quite high.
*Source: Business Korea
