| Business Summary | | Western
Digital
Corporation
designs,
develops,
manufactures
and
markets
hard
drives
featuring
leading-edge
technology.
The
Company's
hard
drives
are
designed
for
the
desktop
PC
market
and
for
the
emerging
market
for
hard
drives
specially
designed
for
digital
audio-visual
applications,
such
as
new
digital
video
recording
devices,
digital
cable
set-top
boxes,
satellite
television
boxes,
audio/
visual
juke
boxes
and
video
game
devices.
The
Company's
hard
drive
products
currently
include
3.5-inch
form
factor
hard
drives
ranging
in
storage
capacity
from
7.5
gigabytes
(GB)
to
45.0
GB.
The
Company's
WD
Caviar
and
WD
Protege
brand
products
are
designed
to
serve
the
advanced
and
value
portions,
respectively,
of
the
desktop
PC
hard
drive
market,
and
its
WD
Performer
brand
products
are
designed
to
serve
the
emerging
audio-visual
portion
of
the
hard
drive
market. | More
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Business Description |
| Financial Summary | | WDC
designs,
develops,
manufactures
and
markets
a
range
of
hard
drives
for
the
desktop
PC
market,
the
high-end
hard
drive
market
and
for
the
emerging
market
for
hard
drives
specifically
designed
for
audio-visual
applications.
For
the
fiscal
year
ended
6/29/01,
revenues
fell
less
then
1%
to
$1.95
billion.
Net
loss
before
extraordinary
items
and
accounting
change
fell
66%
to
$119.8
million.
Results
reflect
lower
volumes
related
to
the
softness
in
PC
demand,
offset
by
improved
margins. | More
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Developments |
| | | | FY2000 Pay | |
| Thomas Pardun, 56 Chairman | -- | Matthew Massengill, 39 Pres,
CEO, Director | $869K | Arif Shakeel, 46 COO | 549K | Steven Campbell, 44 Sr.
VP of Engineering | 411K | W. Michael Williams, 41 Sr.
VP and Gen. Mang., Connex, Inc. | -- | Dollar amounts are as of 30-June-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.. |
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from
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List, Bios,
Compensation,
Options
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