Seagate: SSD-producenter bryder patent

I forbindelse med et interview på CNN slog Bill Watkins, CEO for Seagate tre ting fast:
1) SSD kan endnu ikke betale sig for kunden af købe.
2) Producenter såsom Intel og Samsung bryder med nogle af Seagates patenter på, hvordan diske kommunikerer med resten af computeren.
3) Såfremt der bliver hård konkurrence og gode salgsmuligheder på SSD-markedet, vil de forsøge at følge patentet til dørs - ellers ikke.

En del af den org. tekst:
But in case flash prices continue to plummet and the flash drives really do catch on, Watkins has something else up his sleeve. He's convinced, he confides, that SSD makers like Samsung and Intel (INTC) are violating Seagate's patents. (An Intel spokeswoman says the company doesn't comment on speculation.) Seagate and Western Digital (WDC), two of the major hard drive makers, have patents that deal with many of the ways a storage device communicates with a computer, Watkins says. It stands to reason that sooner or later, Seagate will sue - particularly if it looks like SSDs could become a real threat.

Læs mere her:
http://bigtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/03/17/flash-vs-hard-drive-battle-heats-up/