Hitachi SSD: Intel Inside

Hitachi is one of the most renowned plate-based HD manufacturers, but it does not have the knowledge and capacity to produce Flash memory chips required for SSD.
In order to offer its own SSD models, Hitachi signed a contract with Intel, which will provide the Japanese company with chips and interconnection technology. In summary, future Hitachi SSDs will be "Intel inside". On the long-term, such position will be difficult for Hitachi, and it seems that we will have choice in 209 between SSDs manufactured by many companies such as Transcend, Intel, Seagate, WD, SanDisk, Samsung etc. and Hitachi.
If some companies will have only SSD in their catalog (such as Intel or Transcend), Hitachi and other plate-based manufacturers will have to get their catalog organize and rationalize between standard HDs and SSDs.