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These excerpts taken from the WDC 10-K filed Aug 20, 2008.
Research and Development
 
We devote substantial resources to development of new products and improvement of existing products. We focus our engineering efforts on coordinating our product design and manufacturing processes to bring our products to market in a cost-effective and timely manner. Research and development expenses totaled $464 million (excluding $49 million of in-process research and development acquired in the acquisition of Komag), $306 million and $297 million in 2008, 2007 and 2006, respectively.
 
For an additional discussion of risks related to our development of new products, see Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
 
Research
and Development



 



We devote substantial resources to development of new products
and improvement of existing products. We focus our engineering
efforts on coordinating our product design and manufacturing
processes to bring our products to market in a cost-effective
and timely manner. Research and development expenses totaled
$464 million (excluding $49 million of in-process
research and development acquired in the acquisition of Komag),
$306 million and $297 million in 2008, 2007 and 2006,
respectively.


 



For an additional discussion of risks related to our development
of new products, see Item 1A of this Annual Report on
Form 10-K.


 




This excerpt taken from the WDC 10-K filed Aug 28, 2007.
Research and Development
 
We devote substantial resources to development of new products and improvement of existing products. We focus our engineering efforts on coordinating our product design and manufacturing processes to bring our products to market in a cost-effective and timely manner. Research and development expenses totaled $306 million, $297 million and $240 million in 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively.


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For further discussion of risks related to our development of new products, see Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
 
This excerpt taken from the WDC 10-K filed Nov 20, 2006.
Research and Development
 
We devote substantial resources to development of new products and improvement of existing products. We focus our engineering efforts on coordinating our product design and manufacturing processes to bring our products to market in a cost-effective and timely manner. Research and development expenses totaled $297 million, $240 million and $202 million in 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
 
For further discussion of risks related to our development of new products, see Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
 
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