SanDisk announced its new line of SanDisk Industrial products, which is a dire sign for the existing plethora of small companies providing products for the IoT/embedded/industrial markets (which in many ways are all one and the same).
Just a few short years ago, the client and enterprise SSD markets consisted of an entire constellation of third-party SSD vendors that would build SSDs from NAND and SSD controllers purchased on the open market. The majority of these companies actually had no manufacturing facilities. These companies simply contracted the work out to other companies, such as Avant or Lite-On, that had SSD manufacturing capabilities. These companies slapped the third-party vendor’s sticker on the product at the end of the SSD manufacturing line, and the third-party vendor then sold the SSDs on the general market.
