COMPANIES · CHIP MFG & PACKAGING
WD (Western Digital)
Western Digital, which now brands itself WD, makes hard disk drives, mainly high-capacity drives for cloud and enterprise data centers. It spun off its flash-memory business as Sandisk in February 2025 and is now focused on hard drives and storage platforms.
Western Digital, which now brands itself WD, makes hard disk drives, mainly high-capacity drives for cloud and enterprise data centers. It spun off its flash-memory business as Sandisk in February 2025 and is now focused on hard drives and storage platforms.
It describes itself as building storage infrastructure for the AI-driven data economy and names hyperscalers and cloud service providers as its key customers; AI data centers need large pools of low-cost bulk storage for training data, checkpoints and generated content. It does not make chips used directly in AI computation.
Hyperscalers, cloud service providers and enterprises pay it for hard drives and storage platforms.
United States (San Jose, California)
Chip manufacturing, memory and packaging. The foundries, memory makers, and packaging and testing businesses that physically manufacture AI chips. This is where a chip design actually becomes a real, physical piece of silicon.
Connections (4)
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Current relationships (1)
Source: 2024-10-03 · reviewed 2026-09-26
Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Completed transaction (September 2024)
Limits: Covers one plant, not Western Digital itself; Western Digital's flash business was later separated into Sandisk, and the report does not establish plant output or profitability.
China chip-packaging giant JCET takes over Shanghai plant of US flash memory maker SanDisk ↗Dated or announced (2)
Source: 2025-05-14 · reviewed 2026-09-26
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating
Limits: Announcement of a development collaboration with a Foxconn subsidiary; does not establish that the product has shipped, volumes, or revenue.
Western Digital and Ingrasys Establish Long-term Collaboration to Deliver High-Performance, Fabric-Attached Disaggregated Storage for AI Workflows ↗Source: 2025-05-14 · reviewed 2026-09-26
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating
Limits: Plan for a future product; does not establish chip purchase volumes, shipment, or any broader commercial agreement with NVIDIA.
Western Digital and Ingrasys Establish Long-term Collaboration to Deliver High-Performance, Fabric-Attached Disaggregated Storage for AI Workflows ↗Comparisons (1)
Source: 2026-09-20 · reviewed 2026-09-26
Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product/market overlap
Limits: Market overlap only; does not establish market shares, pricing, or which customers each company wins.
WD And Seagate Showed High Capacity Storage At The AI Infra Summit (Forbes) ↗WD Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results ↗
Reviewed
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