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• Seagate to buy LSI's flash storage business from Avago for $450M

  Seagate Technology will buy LSI's flash storage business from Avago Technologies for US$450 million in cash.

• Avago agrees to buy LSI for $6.6 billion

  Semiconductor company Avago Technologies has agreed to buy storage and networking company LSI for US$6.6 billion in an effort to expand its data center offerings.

• Samsung exec: Smartphone of the future is bringing a technical design revolution

  The smartphone of the future is going to require a "revolution" in thinking about technical design and "not enough people are prepared" for the challenges coming in here years, the president of Samsung Electronics said in his keynote at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) here today.

• ARM-based chips to improve network performance and keep power use in check

  Chipmaker LSI is hoping to improve networking performance and flexibility with its ARM-based Axxia 4500 processor family, announced Monday.

• LSI hopes to power mobile networks with ARM-based processors

  Chipmaker LSI is taking ARM-based processors to new frontiers with its upcoming AXM5500 family, which will be used in mobile base stations of all sizes.

• LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce

  Fabless semi-conductor maker LSI Corp. today announced it will acquire SandForce, the leading maker of flash memory controllers for enterprise-class and consumer flash cards and SSDs. The buyout catapults LSI into the leadership position in SATA SSD controllers.

• University's new SSDs boost video production speeds by 16X

  When Brigham Young University-Hawaii's digital media lab needed to turbo-charge its high-def video processing system, it had two choices: Add a storage area network or plop an solid state drive into its Macbook Pro laptop.

• Permabit extends data dedupe to Linux-based NAS

  Permabit Technology on Tuesday announced an iteration of its Albireo primary data deduplication software for SMB network-attached storage systems based on Linux servers.

• NetApp to buy storage array firm Engenio

  NetApp announced today that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Engenio, a maker of external high-performance storage arrays targeted at storing data from high-bandwidth applications such as video processing.

• NetApp to acquire LSI's Engenio storage unit

  NetApp has agreed to acquire the Engenio external storage systems business of LSI for $US480 million in cash, aiming to serve new applications with growing demands for storage and to get into original-equipment manufacturing (OEM) arrangements with more system manufacturers.

• Seagate ships self-encrypting drives for enterprises

  Seagate Technology has announced it is shipping its Seagate self-encrypting drive (SED) across its portfolio of enterprise-class hard drives.