South Korean memory giant Hynix has aquired Californian storage solution company Link A Media Devices (LAMD). This company develops system controllers for HDDs and SSD drives, mainly targeted at businesses. Since a while the company also develops controllers for consumer-level SSDs, their controller can be found in e.g. the recently announced Corsair Neutron SSDs.
Hynix on the other hand is the second largest memory manufacturer of world (after Samsung) and while they’re big, the profit margins on memory are under pressure. By purchasing LAMD, Hynix is able to offer complete Hynix memory based products, such as SSDs, USB flash memory etc. of which profit margins are much higher.
4 Comments on Hynix purchases SSD controller developer LAMD
I believe that it's much cheaper to simply go out and get what you want, well at least for now.
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Originally Posted by alan1476
You would have thought Corsair would have bought this company, I mean Corsair is a big player in the industry, although I have no idea how big LAMD is. Or Hynix for that matter.
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