Western Digital is just the first

Western Digital has released its financial results for its third quarter fiscal 2011 ended April 1, 2011 and it remains to Seagate, the gap between the two tightens. The results are in sharp decline due to a particularly difficult month of March. Problems with Intel chipsets (see "Intel detects a hardware fault in its chipsets P67/H67") and the earthquake forced the Japanese assemblers to delay some orders, which had a direct impact on its sales Business of 2.25 billion (approx.

1.5 billion euros), which is lower than last year's same period (-17%). Profits totaled $ 146 million, a steep decline from the $ 400 million last year. These figures include charges of $ 10 million that Western Digital had to spend to prepare for the acquisition of Hitachi GST (see "Western Digital buys Hitachi GST).

In all, the company has delivered 50 million hard drives, or 1 million more than just Seagate. The fight between the two remains tense and the new alliance signed with Samsung could reverse the situation (see "Seagate and Samsung form alliance on the hard drives and SSDs).

• Western Digital earnings fall almost 64% (20/04/2011)
• Seagate, Western Digital rise on upbeat viev (08/04/2011)
• Seagate Versus Western Digital: The Hard Disk Drive Battle Lines Are Drawn (19/04/2011)
• Western Digital MyBook Studio Edition II (via Xakriel's Tech Support Blog) (19/04/2011)
• Who Says Seagate's Purchase Of Samsung HDDs Is A Good Thing? (20/04/2011)

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