Western Digital Acquires Hitachi Hard Drive Delayed until March Next Year

Hitachi Global Storage (HGST)'s holding company Vivity Technologies announced today that Western Digital's acquisition of Hitachi HDD will be postponed until March 2012.

This industry's acquisition of "fish from big fish" was first published in March 2011, and it is scheduled to be completed by the end of September 2011. However, when submitted to the European Union review in May, it was postponed until October to December 2011. This time, Western Digital stated that due to the need to obtain permission from the antitrust investigation agencies of the European Union and other countries, as well as relevant formalities, etc., it will acquire The date of the final completion of the case was postponed until March 2012.