SEAGATE & SSD HAS LOADS WITHIN

Seagate has previously made its intentions concerning jumping into the SSD game appealingly clear, and one forecaster now reveals he sees 2 apparent options at the company's disposal if it needs to gravely make a go of it, each of which engross Seagate shooting out a good lump of cash. According to Lazard's Daniel Amir, one alternative would be to acquire out Intel's 49% chance in the IM Flash Technologies cooperative venture it has by means of Micron, which would allegedly cost somewhere around $1 to $2 billion (not to talk about put Seagate on the outs with Intel). More expected than that, Amir Reveals, would be an achievement of or affiliation with SanDisk, which he reveals would be an superlative fit provided Seagate's expertise on the endeavor side and SanDisk's retail expertise. Amir doesn't put a price label on that preference though, but you can be confident it wouldn't be cheap.