Western Digital Will Close HDD Plant and Focus on SSD Production

Recently, according to report, Western Digital will closeHDDplant in Malaysia and sell the facility.

Generally speaking, this factory has been used for several decades.

See the following figure, and you’re able to know this point.

This transition will be executed in close collaboration with employees, customers, supply partners and other critical stakeholders.

This change has also caused the growth in demand for NAND/SSD and recession in demand for HDD hard disks.

Hence, Western Digital makes a plan to expand SSD manufacturing in Penang.

Therefore, SSD is gaining popularity from users all over the world.