Smells like controllers. PLX makes 10GbE, PCI/PCIe bridges, and USB controllers. They also make the firmware for it. Seems to me like some or all of that is applicable to SSDs.
Smells like controllers. PLX makes 10GbE, PCI/PCIe bridges, and USB controllers. They also make the firmware for it. Seems to me like some or all of that is applicable to SSDs.
Except that OCZ isn't getting any of the 10GbE or PCIe team, at all. They're getting the USB and NAS SoC team. The networking and high end bridge teams are staying at PLX.
That's why this thing makes no sense to me. All OCZ is picking up is a team with USB and SoC experience, two things that have pretty much nothing to do with SSDs. Their PR looked like it was copy and pasted from the Indilinx acquisition. This is more likely to benefit the Diesel and Synapse.
Call me crazy, but if it's true that OCZ is getting NAS and USB specialists, doesn't that have everything to do with external drive setups? Are external ssd enclosures with USB and networking capability such a crazy idea?
Regardless of their reasoning, they have information we don't and strategies we don't know about. They wouldn't go spending money for no reason at all.
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Except that OCZ isn't getting any of the 10GbE or PCIe team, at all. They're getting the USB and NAS SoC team. The networking and high end bridge teams are staying at PLX.
That's why this thing makes no sense to me. All OCZ is picking up is a team with USB and SoC experience, two things that have pretty much nothing to do with SSDs. Their PR looked like it was copy and pasted from the Indilinx acquisition. This is more likely to benefit the Diesel and Synapse.
Regardless of their reasoning, they have information we don't and strategies we don't know about. They wouldn't go spending money for no reason at all.