Western Digital has announced that it will be establishing a Research and Development center in Hsinchu, Taiwan, creating new 50 technicians position. The recruitment process for the new Taiwanese R&D center will take between 12 and 18 months and will focus on the development of solid state drives (SSD). This will be its first R&D center overseas.
Western Digital has announced that it will be establishing a Research and Development center in Hsinchu, Taiwan, creating new 50 technicians position. The recruitment process for the new Taiwanese R&D center will take between 12 and 18 months and will focus on the development of solid state drives (SSD). This will be its first R&D center overseas.
Western Digital US headquarters currently has an SSD R&D center with approximately 200-250 technicians.In addition to the development of SSDs, the new Taiwanese center will also handle SSD business for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies with the related SSD products appearing in the first quarter of 2012.
Even though smartphones, tablets, and ultrabooks are all helping integrate SDDs into the consumer market, Western Digital indicated that the biggest obstacle is the price gap between SDDs and traditional hard drives. As a result, they believe that it is not an appropriate time for its full integration into the consumer market and, as a result, will focus its R&D on enterprise applications.
