So we never merged with kioxia.
Happy thanks giving!
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WD would have died had they not bought HGST.
High end product heads are made in GO. Fremont fails to qualify.
@6gwh+1pJffnGZ and many of us wish they had not because we were better off
WD bought HGST because the writing was on the wall for client HDD growth and WD had 1% of the enterprise HDD market and no SSD products. HGST was a leading enterprise HDD player and had an enterprise SSD JV with Intel. WD had cash, but no products with any sort of growth potential so they bought a company that did have products.
Dunno, selling at end of December before Q1 sh-t storm.
@5zuh+1pJffnGZ still rewriting history
Our stock is at $47.5. How high do you people think it can go this year? Not sure if I should sell or wait.
@4lan+1pJffnGZ see, this is what I meant, HGST people have no idea why they have no ability to compete. You think WD bought HGST to resolve the 60% rework failure? And WD can afford HGST because they have 40% success rate?
That's weird. Then why does WD Fremont Site always have record high scraps and reworks? How many photo reworks do you need? 60%+ rework is pretty bad. WD also has higher scrap rates... Not to mention the WD engineering groups require having their hands held by legacy HGST process engineers, because they can't implement simple process and recipe changes resulting in scraps. HGST had technology and patents WD needed to move forward. WD had capital and wanted to secure their technology road map.
@xko+1pJffnGZ HGST was a turkey. WD kept their CCB platform, and they can not even compete inside the company with legacy WD product team and lost product. Go ask around the company and you will know what I was talking about. The funniest thing is that in their product meeting, they wondered why L-WD team could survive in the product but they couldn't. They can not get it.
Everyone knows two turkeys equals six birdies.
DG doesn't make the sun rise and birds sing. Hes just the guy who made $70,000,000+ while WDs stock price, revinue, profits, real estate holdings, and headcount all dropped.
Tell us when WDs stock price, revinue, profits, real estate, or headcount equal what he inherited on day one. I doubt WD will ever regain, let alone improve, any of these metrics under his leadership.
If it wasn’t not for DG we prob no even have job tbh. At least avoid rude comment on thanksgiving
I am eating roasted Turkey today! Leaving the leftover bones for DG.
@jya+1pJffnGZ rewriting history? HGST had the advantage as data center emerged and SanDisk was access to flash as it replaced drives in mobile compute
WD was an eagle but merged with two turkeys, now become a chicken.