Unless Seagate can find a way to buy Micron, which I highly doubt will happen, than Micron will definitely not Merge with Seagate. Seagate's upper management has made some terrible acquisition choices in the past. Buying Micron would be the only sensible choice for Seagate in terms of acquisitions.
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Even if Shakopee does not close, it is Irrelevant, either way there will be alot of layoffs coming soon. And this is coming from the CEO, not some random employee who stated this. The company is restructuring, and for good reason. HDDs are not as relevant as they used to be at one point. And they are not future bound lets say 5-10 years from now, no matter what anyone tells you, period end of discussion. The 6500 will effect every HDD department world wide not just Asia, this is a fact not some rumor. The rumors are just about the date between now and the need of FY 2017. But it will happen before FY2017. I love to see employees who are c---y and acting like they are indispensable. The fact is that anyone except for the execs are replaceable anywhere, at any company, under any circumstance. Even the execs can be replaced. So when the CEO tells everyone that Seagate will layoff 6500 because of HDD being less relevant, that means you should definitely ask questions and doing something. Looking at possible alternatives in case of anything is always good. This means, stay with Seagate and look at the SSD department, or look for opportunities at another company which is future bound. Obviously if someone is on this site and posting comments that means they are thinking about the facts that they might be replaced or let go, no matter what their comment states. But most managers will just say go back to work and just ignore all things until somethings happens, and then you are on your own. Shrewsbury MA site same thing happen, top manager left right before site closed. That shows alot. Same thing happened at Shakopee site. Top Director left for Samsung SSD and 4 months earlier he was stating how great HDDs are and that HDDs are future bound. The hypocrisy in this case definitely shows.
Expect 2 of the 4 dc to close.
Expect 2 of the 4 dc to remission.
Not sure of SSDC shut down but there are new rumors of Micron-Seagate Merger in Sept..