Samsung has introduced a new S2 Portable external hard drive to please the gamers. It’s the S2 Gamers Edition hard drive that gives consumers one month free trial of Blizzard’s StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty game. Other than that, you have the same S2 portable HDD with USB 3.0 support, SecretZone and SafetyKey to […]
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Samsung extends strategic alignment with Seagate, will sell HDD biz and more
Samsung has put an end to yesterday’s speculation by announcing a strategic partnership with Seagate. Under the agreement, Seagate will take over Samsung’s HDD business and will also extend the partnership with Samsung over other areas like: – Extending the cross-license agreement between the companies – Co-develop Enterprise Storage Solutions – Disk Drive supply […]
WSJ: Samsung looking to sell its HDD business
Samsung is apparently trying to sell off its loss-making hard disk drive (HDD) business. According to WSJ’s source, the Korean giant is trying to sell the unit in order to tap newer “growth areas.” One of the reasons for the loss is due to the rise of flash memory storage, which are used in […]
Samsung sells more than 10,000 SSDs in 2 months in South Korea
Samsung has announced that they’ve managed to sell more than 10,000 units of 470 Series SSDs in its home market. The electronics giant became the first player to sell SSDs directly to consumers in Korea and managed to achieve this feat in about 2 months since the launch in January. SSDs are superior to […]
Samsung Techwin to stop making phone camera modules
Samsung’s subsidiary, Techwin has announced to quit the phone camera modules manufacturing business. Complete halt of production and sales will be from June 30 and the reason for the closure is losses due to the decline in average selling price of the modules as well as increased competition. Last year, Samsung Techwin posted an […]