SandForce Sold Again
The corporate overlords of SandForce SSD controllers have changed hands again. Seagate, who was missing an SSD controller of its own, will become the new home. The following list gives a brief history of the numerous mergers involved:
- 1999 - HP's non-computing products division spun out as Agilent
- August 2005 - Agilent semiconductor products group spun out as Avago
- January 2012 - SandForce sold to LSI ($370 million)
- 2014 - LSI sold to Avago ($6.6 billion)
- May 2014 - Avago SSD division sold to Seagate ($450 million)
- Intel 520, 530, 535, 330, 335
- Kingston HyperX, HyperX 3K, SSDNow E100, SSDNow KC100, SSDNow V+200, SSDNow V300
- Corsair Force Series
- OCZ Vertex 3, Agility 3, RevoDrive
- And many others...