Western Digital, the global hard-drive giant, announced the acquisition of NAND flash maker SanDisk for a total consideration of about US$19 billion. The cash-and-stock deal was widely seen as a landmark consolidation in the storage industry, combining NAND flash and hard-drive businesses into a more complete storage portfolio.

For the cooling industry, concentration in storage and semiconductors implies denser data centers and higher-power storage equipment, raising the bar for cooling fans and thermal modules. Honghua will keep tracking industry trends and providing reliable cooling solutions for storage and semiconductor equipment.