Harddisk drive maker Western Digital to buy SanDisk in $19b deal

Harddisk drive maker Western Digital to buy SanDisk in $19b deal

Sandisk's new portable solid state drives are displayed at the Sandisk booth during the 2015 Computex exhibition at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei, Taiwan, June 2, 2015. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang/Files

Hard-disk drive maker Western Digital Corp agreed to buy SanDisk Corp in a $19 billion deal that will increase its ability to make flash memory storage chips used in smartphones and tablets.

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