Samsung is considering the sale of transmission business of Seagate hard drive

         April 18, according to foreign media reports, according to a person familiar said on Sunday, Samsung Electronics is considering selling its loss-making hard drive business in order to raise funds to invest in new growth areas. Samsung Electronics is considering a 15 billion sell hard drive business sector, however, may also be less than 10 billion dollars to sell this department, as Samsung Electronics is trying to revoke the business sector.

　　According to "The Wall Street Journal" reported, the source said, are most likely to buy Samsung hard drive business buyer is an American computer hard disk manufacturer Seagate Technology.

　　Seagate Sunday night that no one office in Asia, answer the call.

　　Samsung Electronics announced earlier this month forecast weak first-quarter profit.

　　Samsung Electronics in the fourth quarter of last year, with global market share of 11% of the hard disk. Samsung hard drive business has been losing money, prompting Samsung Electronics is considering selling the business.

　　This year in March, Western Digital agreed to about 43 million in cash and stock acquisition of Hitachi's hard disk business. The deal will result in a share of the global hard disk drive market share of nearly 50% of the company. According to market research firm iSuppli said Seagate accounted for in the fourth quarter of 2010, the global HDD shipments of 29%.

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