By Simon Quicke5 September 2008
Samsung is being linked with SanDisk after the vendor admitted
that it is considering buying the flash memory specialist.
According to comment made to Reuters the vendor has not yet
made a decision but in response to the comments Samsung’s share price rose on
the Korean stock exchange.
Samsung is a leading force in the NAND flash chip market and
pays SanDisk millions a year in licensing fees.
Alex Tathum, managing director at memory distributor Simms
International, said that SanDisk was “ripe for the picking” and it’s shares had
halved this year and the question was who would be the suitor.
“I think SanDisk will be brought and it’s whether it is
Samsung or Seagate, but someone will buy it,” he said.
He said that Samsung was probably SanDisk largest royalty
payer so it made sense for them to be considering the aqusition.
SanDisk operates in Europe from an office in Ireland but was
unavailable for comment.
