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First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales (mashable.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 39 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This article title is a bit confusing. WD cards are only going away because their parent company SanDisk decided to amalgamate their offering into one brand (which makes sense to me, I never understood the WD SD cards when SanDisk is the trusted brand). Totally different circumstances.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    western digital was the parent, they bought sandisk in 2016.

    last year they spun-off the flash storage business back into a new entity (also) named sandisk, leaving western digital ('wd') with only the traditional hdd business.

    the spin-off also included wd's previous sd card line as well as their popular computer ssd products (which are being re-branded by the 'new' company).

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