Western Digital

Western Digital

https://www.westerndigital.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/western-digital/

Western Digital Corporation, a publicly owned company founded in 1970, is a US-based manufacturer of computer hardware. Employing approximately 26,400 people, the company's primary focus is the design and production of data storage solutions.

2024 Revenue

Founded

1970

Headcount

26,396

Headquarters

US

Primary Segment

Consumer electronics

Ownership

Publicly Owned

News Summary:

Toshiba Corp issued a legal warning to Western Digital Corp on an unspecified date, instructing the company to cease what Toshiba described as "harassment." During the recent three months, 23 analysts offered varied opinions on Western Digital, with a mix of positive and negative assessments. The analysts' ratings shifted over the past 30 days compared to previous months. Western Digital's success is linked to the growth of the artificial intelligence market, specifically leveraging hard disk drives to meet the increasing demand for data storage. Growing data storage needs are benefiting Western Digital and its competitor, Seagate.

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Western Digital offers 3 products in the media and telecoms services and media tech industries. Western Digital's product portfolio comprises of content acquisition, consumer electronics and media cloud and storage.

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Western Digital's revenues were $9.5B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Western Digital's revenue into 3 different product categories, the largest of which is consumer devices, which represents 100% of Western Digital's revenue.

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Dec

4th

2025

05:55

Operational Challenges, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

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2025

01:28

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3rd

2025

21:00

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

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Dec

3rd

2025

17:53

Capital Investment, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Seagate, Western Digital stumble amid reports of customer resistance to AI

Seagate, Western Digital stumble amid reports of customer resistance to AI Hard disk drive makers Seagate Technology Holdings and Western Digital slumped Wednesday following a report from The Information that Microsoft is facing pushback from software clients who don’t want to pay more for AI-optimized products.

Dec

3rd

2025

13:02

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

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Dec

3rd

2025

10:00

Financial Results, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

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Fidelity Investments

Dec

3rd

2025

09:51

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Samsung Electronics Maintains Top Spot in NAND Market in Q3… "Impact of eSSD Shipments"

[Translated] (Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Kang Tae-woo = In the third quarter of this year, global NAND flash sales increased due to production cuts and shipments of enterprise solid-state drives (eSSD) installed in data centers, with

Dec

3rd

2025

08:11

Partnerships and Alliances, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Western Digital Highlights Data Storage Innovation at Innovation Bazaar 2025

Western Digital hosted its 8th annual Innovation Bazaar (IB 2025) in India on 5th November, reaffirming its long-standing commitment to fostering innovation and nurturing India’s engineering talent. The daylong event celebrated engineering creativity, collaboration, and technical excellence, featuring 125+ internal submissions and 50+ university entries.

Dec

3rd

2025

07:47

Financial Results, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

AI Infrastructure Boosts NAND Flash Industry, with Kioxia's Revenue Growing the Most at 33.1% QoQ in Q3

[Translated] According to the latest survey released by TrendForce today, the continued expansion of AI infrastructure by cloud service providers (CSPs) is driving strong demand for enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs) in Q3 2025. This has led to a combined revenue increase of 16.5% QoQ for the top five NAND Flash vendors, approaching US$17.1 billion.

United News Network

Dec

2nd

2025

21:48

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Whitmer biz incentives may face chopping block as part of Michigan budget deal – Muskegon Tribune

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Muskegon Tribune

Dec

2nd

2025

20:00

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

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Dec

2nd

2025

18:30

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