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Western Digital
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American computer storage corporation
OverviewAI-generated
Western Digital Corporation is an active operating company incorporated in Delaware, United States. Established in 1970, the organization is headquartered in Wilmington and San Jose. It operates in the computer storage devices industry and is listed on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol WDC. The company employs 76,449 people and maintains an official website.
The firm, also known by the acronym WD, functions as both a company and a funder. Its legal name is Western Digital Corporation, and it is registered in the US-DE jurisdiction. The organization’s fiscal year ends on July 3. Recent filings include an 8-K form submitted on June 3, 2026.
Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, GLEIF, SEC EDGAR, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Trade name
- WD
- Formerly
- General Digital Corporation (1970–1971)
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- Nasdaq : WDC Nasdaq-100 component S&P 500 component
- Industry
- Computer data storage
- Founded
- April 23, 1970 ; 56 years ago ( 1970-04-23 ) in Newport Beach, California , U.S.
- Founder
- Alvin B. Phillips
- Headquarters
- San Jose, California , U.S.
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- Irving Tan (CEO)
- Products
- Hard disk drives Storage systems
- Brands
- WD SanDisk Professional
- Revenue
- US$ 9.52 billion (2025)
- Operating income
- US$2.33 billion (2025)
- Net income
- US$1.89 billion (2025)
- Total assets
- US$14.0 billion (2025)
- Total equity
- US$5.31 billion (2025)
- Number of employees
- 40,000 (2025)
via Wikipedia infobox
Company
WDC- Industry
- Computer Storage Devices
- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- State of incorporation
- DE
- Entity type
- operating
- Fiscal year end
- Jul 3
- Latest filing
- 8-K · 2026-06-03
- Jurisdiction
- US-DE
- Headquarters
- WILMINGTON, US
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1970
- Location
- San Jose, United States
- Also known as
- WD, Western Digital Corporation
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.451113.3 · ISNI 0000 0000 8666 4326
Official website
High-Capacity HDDs for PCs, NAS, Gaming, Data Centers, and AI Data Cycles | WD
Western Digital, leaders in digital storage solutions compatible with Mac and PC. FREE shipping, friendly support, and 30-day return policy on storage products.
westerndigital.com →Link to the official site · 19,108 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- public company
- Part of
- Nasdaq-100
- Official name
- Western Digital Corporation
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- San Jose
- Industry
- computer storage media
- Employees
- 76449
- Stock exchange
- Nasdaq
- Legal form
- Delaware corporation
- Official website
- www.westerndigital.com
- Image
- Western Digital Headquarters.jpg
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- Commons category
- Western Digital
- inception
- 1970-00-00
- MAC Address Block Large ID
- 0014EE
- owner of
- HGST
- member of
- Linux Foundation
- WordLift URL
- data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/western_digital
- social media followers
- 125000
- product or material produced
- hard disk drive platter
Sources (13)
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Encyclopedic overview
Western Digital Corporation, doing business as WD, is an American data storage company headquartered in San Jose, California. Established in 1970, the company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of hard disk drives (HDDs).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Western Digital” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.