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WDC » Topics » Expansion into new hard drive markets may cause our capital expenditures to increase and if we do not successfully expand into new markets, our business may suffer.

These excerpts taken from the WDC 10-K filed Aug 20, 2008.
Expansion into new hard drive markets may cause our capital expenditures to increase and if we do not successfully expand into new markets, our business may suffer.
 
To remain a significant supplier of hard drives, we will need to offer a broad range of hard drive products to our customers. We currently offer a variety of 3.5-inch hard drives for the desktop, enterprise, CE and external storage markets, and we also offer 2.5-inch form factor hard drives for the mobile, CE and external storage markets. However, demand for hard drives may shift to products in form factors or with interfaces that our competitors offer but which we do not. Expansion into other hard drive markets and resulting increases in manufacturing capacity requirements may require us to make substantial additional investments due in part because our operations are largely vertically integrated. If we fail to successfully expand into new hard drive markets with products that we do not currently offer, we may lose business to our competitors who offer these products.
 
Expansion
into new hard drive markets may cause our capital expenditures
to increase and if we do not successfully expand into new
markets, our business may suffer.


 



To remain a significant supplier of hard drives, we will need to
offer a broad range of hard drive products to our customers. We
currently offer a variety of 3.5-inch hard drives for the
desktop, enterprise, CE and external storage markets, and we
also offer 2.5-inch form factor hard drives for the mobile, CE
and external storage markets. However, demand for hard drives
may shift to products in form factors or with interfaces that
our competitors offer but which we do not. Expansion into other
hard drive markets and resulting increases in manufacturing
capacity requirements may require us to make substantial
additional investments due in part because our operations are
largely vertically integrated. If we fail to successfully expand
into new hard drive markets with products that we do not
currently offer, we may lose business to our competitors who
offer these products.


 




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10-K (2 sections)
Aug 20, 2008

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