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WDC » Topics » Our head manufacturing operations include a single wafer fabrication facility in Fremont, California and a single head gimbal/head stack assembly facility in Bang Pa-In, Thailand, which subjects us to substantial risk of damage or loss if operations at eiThis excerpt taken from the WDC 10-K filed Nov 20, 2006. Our head
manufacturing operations include a single wafer fabrication
facility in Fremont, California and a single head gimbal/head
stack assembly facility in Bang Pa-In, Thailand, which subjects
us to substantial risk of damage or loss if operations at either
of these facilities are disrupted.
As we have previously discussed in public statements, our
business plan presently contemplates that we plan to design and
manufacture approximately 70% of the heads required for the hard
drives we manufacture. We fabricate wafers in our Fremont,
California facility, and the wafers are then sent to our
Thailand facility for slider fabrication/wafer slicing, HGA
assembly and testing, and HSA assembly and testing. A fire,
flood, earthquake or other disaster, condition or event such as
a power outage that adversely affects our facilities in Fremont,
California or Bang Pa-In, Thailand would significantly affect
our supply of heads and limit our ability to manufacture hard
drives which would result in a substantial loss of sales and
revenue and a substantial harm to our operating results.
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