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Western Digital Corporation
Headquarters in the Santa Teresa district of San Jose, California in 2021
Formerly
General Digital Corporation (1970–1971)
Company type
Public
Traded as
Nasdaq: WDC
S&P 500 component
Industry
Computer storage
Founded
April 23, 1970; 54 years ago (1970-04-23) in Newport Beach, California
Founder
Alvin B. Phillips
Headquarters
San Jose, California
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
David Goeckeler (CEO)[1]
Products
Hard disk drives
NAND Flash-based storage devices
Storage systems
Brands
WD
SanDisk
SanDisk Professional
Revenue
US$12.3 billion (2023)
Operating income
US$−1.3 billion (2023)
Net income
US$−1.7 billion (2023)
Total assets
US$24.4 billion (2023)
Total equity
US$10.8 billion (2023)
Number of employees
c. 53,000 (2023)
Website
westerndigital.com
Footnotes / references Financials as of June 30, 2023[update].[2]
Western Digital Corporation (WDC, commonly known as Western Digital or WD) is an American computer drive manufacturer and data storage company, headquartered in San Jose, California. It designs, manufactures and sells data technology products, including data storage devices, data center systems and cloud storage services.
Western Digital has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company. It is one of the largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers, along with producing solid-state drives and flash memory devices. Its competitors include the data management and storage companies Seagate Technology and Micron Technology.[3]
^"Cisco exec David Goeckeler appointed CEO of Western Digital". ZDNet.
^"US SEC: 2023 Form 10-K Western Digital Corporation". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. August 22, 2023. Retrieved August 22, 2023.
^Deagon, Brian (March 27, 2020). "WDC Stock: Is It A Buy Right Now? Here's What Earnings, Western Digital Stock Charts Show". Investor's Business Daily. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
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the question, such as a lawsuit against drive manufacturer WesternDigital. WesternDigital settled the challenge and added explicit disclaimers to products...
inch form factor. 2009 - WesternDigital is the first to offer a 1 TB hard drive in a 2.5 inch form factor. 2009 – WesternDigital ships first HDD with dual...
drive on the same day as Hitachi, in February 2005. In early 2005, WesternDigital announced they would be joining the mini hard drive market with their...
WesternDigital Corporation's Brief in Support of Plaintiff's Motion for Preliminary Approval". Orin Safier v. WesternDigital Corporation. Western Digital...
designed for IBM PC-compatible computers. It was first developed by WesternDigital and Compaq in 1986 for compatible hard drives and CD or DVD drives...
current name in 2016 when it was acquired by WesternDigital. As of March 2019,[update] WesternDigital was the fourth-largest manufacturer of flash memory...
as a reference device for other vendors. In June 2017, WesternDigital shut down WesternDigital Labs, which caused the production of the box to end. In...
through its acquisition of IBM's disk drive business. It was acquired by WesternDigital in 2012. However, until October 2015, it was required to operate autonomously...
WesternDigital alleging that the technology is inferior was settled on or before August 27, 2021. Due to the controversy, as of June 2020, Western Digital...
aimed at entry level laptops and high end netbooks in December 2009. WesternDigital released on April 23, 2013 a hard drive 5 mm in height specifically...
memory, with some sources estimating the loss as high as 15 exabytes. WesternDigital used (and still uses) Kioxia's facilities for making its own flash...
The Media Center, branded by WesternDigital, is a 7,200-rpm hard drive (either 160GB or 250GB), combined with a reader of CompactFlash Type I and II...
2014. "WD Re Datacenter Distribution Specification Sheet" (PDF). WesternDigital. January 21, 2016. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-09-06...
current hard disk drive manufacturers: Seagate Technology Toshiba WesternDigital Note: the HDDs internal to these devices are manufactured only by the...
WesternDigital Stadium Kitakami (ウエスタンデジタルスタジアムきたかみ) is a multi-use stadium in Kitakami, Iwate, Japan. It is used mostly for track and field events....
systems. The term preemptive wear leveling (PWL) has been used by WesternDigital to describe their preservation technique used on hard disk drives (HDDs)...
2011, Hitachi agreed to sell its hard disk drive subsidiary, HGST, to WesternDigital for a combination of cash and shares worth US$4.3 billion. Due to concerns...
1963. Missler joined WesternDigital as chairman and chief executive in June 1977 and became the largest shareholder of WesternDigital. In 1983, Missler...
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Global Information
US$12.3 billion (2023)