MIRA INFORM REPORT

Report No. :	506561.2
Report Date :	05.05.2018

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

Name :	WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Registered Office :	251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington New Castle De 19808, USA
Country :	United States
Financials (as on) :	2016 [Summarized]
Date of Incorporation :	08.10.1986
Legal Form :	Corporation
Line of Business :	Subject develops and manufactures storage solutions that enable people to store, collect, access, and use digital information.
No. of Employees :	15,050

RATING & COMMENTS

(Mira Inform has adopted New Rating mechanism w.e.f. 23^rd January 2017)

MIRA’s Rating :

B

Credit Rating	Explanation	Rating Comments
B	Medium Risk	Business dealings permissible on a regular monitoring basis

Status :	Moderate
Payment Behaviour :	Slow
Litigation :	Exist

NOTES :

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ECGC Country Risk Classification List

Country Name	Previous Rating (30.09.2017)	Current Rating (31.12.2017)
United States	A1	A1

Risk Category	ECGC Classification
Insignificant	A1
Low Risk	A2
Moderately Low Risk	B1
Moderate Risk	B2
Moderately High Risk	C1
High Risk	C2
Very High Risk	D

UNITED STATES - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

The US has the most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $59,500. US firms are at or near the forefront in technological advances, especially in computers, pharmaceuticals, and medical, aerospace, and military equipment; however, their advantage has narrowed since the end of World War II. Based on a comparison of GDP measured at purchasing power parity conversion rates, the US economy in 2014, having stood as the largest in the world for more than a century, slipped into second place behind China, which has more than tripled the US growth rate for each year of the past four decades.

In the US, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace. US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products. At the same time, businesses face higher barriers to enter their rivals' home markets than foreign firms face entering US markets.

Long-term problems for the US include stagnation of wages for lower-income families, inadequate investment in deteriorating infrastructure, rapidly rising medical and pension costs of an aging population, energy shortages, and sizable current account and budget deficits.

The onrush of technology has been a driving factor in the gradual development of a "two-tier" labor market in which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. But the globalization of trade, and especially the rise of low-wage producers such as China, has put additional downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on the return to capital. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households. Since 1996, dividends and capital gains have grown faster than wages or any other category of after-tax income.

Imported oil accounts for more than 50% of US consumption and oil has a major impact on the overall health of the economy. Crude oil prices doubled between 2001 and 2006, the year home prices peaked; higher gasoline prices ate into consumers' budgets and many individuals fell behind in their mortgage payments. Oil prices climbed another 50% between 2006 and 2008, and bank foreclosures more than doubled in the same period. Besides dampening the housing market, soaring oil prices caused a drop in the value of the dollar and a deterioration in the US merchandise trade deficit, which peaked at $840 billion in 2008. Because the US economy is energy-intensive, falling oil prices since 2013 have alleviated many of the problems the earlier increases had created.

The sub-prime mortgage crisis, falling home prices, investment bank failures, tight credit, and the global economic downturn pushed the US into a recession by mid-2008. GDP contracted until the third quarter of 2009, the deepest and longest downturn since the Great Depression. To help stabilize financial markets, the US Congress established a $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in October 2008. The government used some of these funds to purchase equity in US banks and industrial corporations, much of which had been returned to the government by early 2011. In January 2009, Congress passed and former President Barack OBAMA signed a bill providing an additional $787 billion fiscal stimulus to be used over 10 years - two-thirds on additional spending and one-third on tax cuts - to create jobs and to help the economy recover. In 2010 and 2011, the federal budget deficit reached nearly 9% of GDP. In 2012, the Federal Government reduced the growth of spending and the deficit shrank to 7.6% of GDP. US revenues from taxes and other sources are lower, as a percentage of GDP, than those of most other countries.

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan required major shifts in national resources from civilian to military purposes and contributed to the growth of the budget deficit and public debt. Through FY 2018, the direct costs of the wars will have totaled more than $1.9 trillion, according to US Government figures.

In March 2010, former President OBAMA signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a health insurance reform that was designed to extend coverage to an additional 32 million Americans by 2016, through private health insurance for the general population and Medicaid for the impoverished. Total spending on healthcare - public plus private - rose from 9.0% of GDP in 1980 to 17.9% in 2010.

In July 2010, the former president signed the DODD-FRANK Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a law designed to promote financial stability by protecting consumers from financial abuses, ending taxpayer bailouts of financial firms, dealing with troubled banks that are "too big to fail," and improving accountability and transparency in the financial system - in particular, by requiring certain financial derivatives to be traded in markets that are subject to government regulation and oversight.

In December 2012, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced plans to purchase $85 billion per month of mortgage-backed and Treasury securities in an effort to hold down long-term interest rates, and to keep short-term rates near zero until unemployment dropped below 6.5% or inflation rose above 2.5%. The Fed ended its purchases during the summer of 2014, after the unemployment rate dropped to 6.2%, inflation stood at 1.7%, and public debt fell below 74% of GDP. In December 2015, the Fed raised its target for the benchmark federal funds rate by 0.25%, the first increase since the recession began. With continued low growth, the Fed opted to raise rates several times since then, and in December 2017, the target rate stood at 1.5%.

In December 2017, Congress passed and President Donald TRUMP signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which, among its various provisions, reduces the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%; lowers the individual tax rate for those with the highest incomes from 39.6% to 37%, and by lesser percentages for those at lower income levels; changes many deductions and credits used to calculate taxable income; and eliminates in 2019 the penalty imposed on taxpayers who do not obtain the minimum amount of health insurance required under the ACA. The new taxes took effect on 1 January 2018; the tax cut for corporations are permanent, but those for individuals are scheduled to expire after 2025. The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) under the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the new law will reduce tax revenues and increase the federal deficit by about $1.45 trillion over the 2018-2027 period. This amount would decline if economic growth were to exceed the JCT’s estimate.

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STATUTORY INFORMATION
Address in the order:	26967 Network Place Chicago IL 60673-1269, USA The address in the order corresponds to a branch location
Legal Name:	WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Trade Name:	WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
ID:	2103965
Date Created:	1986
Date Incorporated:	08.10.1986
Legal Address:	251 Little Falls Drive Wilmington New Castle De 19808, USA
Operative Address:	3355 Michelson Dr/#100, Irvine, CA 92612 USA
Telephone:	949-672-7000
Fax:	949-672-5408
Legal Form:	Corporation
Email:	NA
Registered in:	DELAWARE
Website:	www.wdc.com www.westerndigital.com The website corresponds to the parent company’s website
Contact:	MICHAEL CORDANO, President
Staff:	15,050
Activity:	SIC Code: 3572, Computer Storage Devices NAICS Code: 334112, Computer Storage Device Manufacturing
BANKS:
	The company does not make its banking data public
HISTORY:
	The company was incorporated in 1986 and is based in Irvine, California. Western Digital Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation.
Key Developments:	Western Digital Research Presents at OCP U.S. Summit, Mar-21-2018 02:20 PM Mar 19 18 Western Digital Research Presents at OCP U.S. Summit, Mar-21-2018 02:20 PM. Venue: San Jose, California, United States. Speakers: Damien Le Moal, Director. Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba Memory Corporation Files Petition with the Tokyo District Court Against Western Digital Corporation and Western Digital Technologies, Inc Jun 28 17 Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba Memory Corporation filed a petition with the Tokyo District Court against Western Digital Corporation and its subsidiary Western Digital Technologies, Inc. seeking a provisional disposition order for an injunction against acts of unfair competition, and also brought suit for a permanent injunction, damages and payment of JPY 120 billion, alleging violation of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, among other things. The lawsuit states, “Update on Status of Third-party Investment in the Memory Business,” that WD has continually interfered with the bid process related to the sale of TMC. Citing joint venture agreements between Toshiba and SanDisk LLC (including its affiliates, SanDisk), the lawsuit also says that WD has exaggerated its consent right – in both public statements and private communications to bidders and others involved in the sale process – in order to interfere with the sale of TMC which does not hold the ownership interests in joint venture companies co-owned with SanDisk. The complaint goes on to state that proceeding with the sales process for TMC does not violate any consent rights held by WD; WD’s claims are false, designed only to interfere with the sale process, and have damaged Toshiba and TMC. Toshiba and TMC have filed litigation in Japan because WD has improperly obtained Toshiba and TMC’s trade secrets by transferring employees of SanDisk to WD who have access to confidential information of Toshiba and TMC through their participation in the collaboration between SanDisk and Toshiba/TMC. Toshiba considers that WD’s actions are damaging to both Toshiba and TMC, violate the Unfair Competition Prevention Act (Article 2(1) (iv), (vii), (viii), (xv)), and are tortious acts under the Civil Code (Article 709). Toshiba and TMC have filed the petition for a provisional disposition order seeking an injunction to put an end to WD’s damaging actions, and a suit seeking permanent injunction and damages. In addition to intentionally interfering with the TMC sale process via its false claims, the suit says that Toshiba did not object to WD access to information related to the joint venture and development under the assumption that WD will be entering into a contract in respect of information access, however WD had rejected to such contract. Western Digital Corporation and Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Enter into Bridge Loan Agreement Jun 10 16 On May 12, 2016, Western Digital Corporation and Western Digital Technologies, Inc. had entered into a bridge loan agreement (the Bridge Loan Agreement) with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, the lenders from time to time party thereto and the other loan parties party thereto, providing for $3.0 billion in aggregate principal amount of senior secured bridge loans. On June 9, 2016, Western Digital Corporation and Western Digital Technologies, Inc. entered into an amendment agreement (Amendment No. 1) to the Bridge Loan Agreement to extend the maturity date of the loans from 45 days to 75 days after May 12, 2016.
PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY
	Western Digital Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures storage solutions that enable people to store, collect, access, and use digital information.
Products/Services description:	The company offers various external storage products, such as desktop and portable drives for PCs; portable and desktop drives for Mac; and other storage drives for PCs and Mac. It also provides internal storage products, such as desktop, NAS, mobile, datacenter, surveillance, CE/AV, and workstation hard drives, as well as internal drive kits; personal cloud storage products; and home entertainment storage products, including media players, multimedia drives, DVR expander, and TV storage products. In addition, the company offers business solutions, such as private cloud storage products, Windows storage servers, Windows servers, network backup solutions, guardian services, and other storage solutions. Its products are also used in business computers; digital video recorders at homes; and medical, military, aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, and telecommunications systems.
Brands:	No brands registered
Sales are:	Wholesale
Clients:	The company serves consumers ranging from large companies to individuals COMPUMAX COMPUTER S.A.S. Comercializadora De Valor Agregado Sa De Cv
Suppliers:	Western Digital Taiwan Co., Ltd. TELEPLAN TECH SERVICES SDN BHD Western Digital Thailand
Operations area:	National and International
The company imports from	Taiwan, Malaysia
The company exports to	Colombia, Mexico, Thailand
The subject employs	15,050 employees
Payments:	Slow
LOCATION
Headquarters :	26967 Network Place Chicago IL 60673-1269, USA
Comments:	NA
Branches:	Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Milpitas, CA, United States Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 26967 Network Place Chicago IL 60673-1269, USA Western Digital Technologies, Inc. San Jose, CA, United States Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Fremont, CA, United States
Main Competitors	NA
Related Companies:	The company does not have related companies
GROUP STRUCTURE AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
Listed at the stock exchange:	NO
Capital:	NA
Shareholders:	Western Digital Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of: Western Digital Corporation 5601 Great Oaks Parkway San Jose, CA 95119
Management:	MICHAEL CORDANO, President Stephen D. Milligan, CEO & Director of Western Digital Corp
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
	The company does not make its financial statements public. The following information has been provided by outside sources:
USD 2016
Sales	4 300 000 000
Cash Flow	Normal
LEGAL FILINGS
Patents	Reducing write-backs to memory by controlling the age of cache lines in lower level cache Patent number: 9952973 Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing write-backs to memory is disclosed herein. The method includes determining whether a read/write request entering a lower level cache is a cache line containing modified data, and responsive to determining that the read/write request is not a cache line containing modified data, manipulating age information of the cache line to reduce a number of write-backs to memory. Type: Grant Filed: October 29, 2015 Date of Patent: April 24, 2018 Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Inventor: Md Kamruzzaman Disk drive system Patent number: 9953667 Abstract: A head gimbal assembly has a laminate flexure that includes a metallic conductive layer that includes a plurality of electrically conductive traces that are elongated and narrow and electrically connected to the read head, and a metallic structural layer that is stiffer than the conductive layer. A first dielectric layer is disposed between the structural layer and the conductive layer. A second dielectric layer substantially covers the conductive layer in a flexure tail bonding region that overlaps a flexible printed circuit (FPC). The structural layer includes a plurality of flexure bond pads that are aligned with, facing, and bonded to corresponding FPC bond pads. The flexure bond pads in the structural layer are electrically connected to the electrically conductive traces in the conductive layer by vias through the first dielectric layer. In certain embodiments, the flexure tail is folded upon itself in the flexure tail bonding region. Type: Grant Filed: February 10, 2017 Date of Patent: April 24, 2018 Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Inventor: Tzong-Shii Pan System and method for lower page data recovery in a solid state drive Patent number: 9952939 Abstract: In some embodiments of the present invention, a data storage system includes a controller and a non-volatile memory array having a plurality of memory pages. The controller performs a method that efficiently resolves the lower page corruption problem. In one embodiment, the method selects programmed lower page(s) for which paired upper page(s) have not been programmed, reads data from those selected lower page(s), corrects the read data, and reprograms the read data into those lower page(s). Since the number of lower pages in this condition is typically low (e.g., several pages in a block with hundreds or thousands of pages), this is a much more efficient method than reprogramming the entire block. In another embodiment, a similar reprogramming method is applied as a data recovery scheme in situations in which only lower pages are programmed (e.g., SLC memory, MLC memory in SLC mode, etc.). Type: Grant Filed: April 30, 2015 Date of Patent: April 24, 2018 Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Inventors: Yongke Sun, Dengtao Zhao, Jui-Yao Yang Enhanced write pole and return pole for improved areal density Patent number: 9953675 Abstract: A system, according to one embodiment, includes: a main pole; and a trailing shield. A first distance D1 is defined in a track direction between the trailing shield and a pole tip region of the main pole; and a second distance D2 is defined in the track direction between the trailing shield and a second region of the main pole located behind the pole tip region, where D2 is greater than D1. Other systems, and methods are described in additional embodiments. Type: Grant Filed: October 9, 2017 Date of Patent: April 24, 2018 Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Inventors: Kuok San Ho, Suping Song, Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden Characterizing a sensing circuit of a data storage device Patent number: 9953674 Abstract: A data storage device is disclosed comprising a disk, a head for accessing the disk, and a sensor for generating an alternating sensor signal. The sensor is disconnected from an input of a sensing circuit and while the sensor is disconnected an alternating calibration signal is injected into the input of the sensing circuit, wherein the alternating calibration signal comprises a predetermined offset and amplitude. A response of the sensing circuit to the alternating calibration signal is evaluated to detect at least one of an offset and a gain of the sensing circuit. Type: Grant Filed: June 27, 2017 Date of Patent: April 24, 2018 Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Inventors: Paul Dylan Sherman, Tuyetanh Thi Dang Data management in RAID environment Patent number: 9952950 Abstract: A data storage system includes a plurality of Data Storage Devices (DSDs) that each includes at least one disk for storing data. Data is received for storage in a data stripe across the plurality of DSDs with each DSD of the plurality of DSDs storing a different portion of the data stripe. A strip size is determined for each portion of the data stripe based on a radial location where the portion of the data stripe will be stored on the at least one disk of its respective DSD. The data stripe is stored across the plurality of DSDs with each portion of the data stripe arranged in a radial location on the at least one disk of its respective DSD so that, when the data stripe is accessed, the radial locations of access in the plurality of DSDs progress in the same radial direction. Type: Grant Filed: June 16, 2015 Date of Patent: April 24, 2018 Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Inventor: John Spongr Adhesive cover seal for hermetically-sealed data storage device Patent number: 9953684 Abstract: A method of assembling a data storage device comprises forming an enclosure by overlapping each of a plurality of sidewalls of a cover with a corresponding sidewall of a base part, dispensing a liquid adhesive between the respective sidewalls of the cover and base part in such a quantity at each of a plurality of locations to promote capillary flow of the liquid adhesive to form a continuous film of liquid adhesive between the sidewalls, and curing the continuous film of liquid adhesive to form a hermetic seal between the cover and the base part. Embodiments may include surface treating the sidewall surface(s), which can help promote the capillary flow of the liquid adhesive. The hermetic seal provides for a lighter-than-air gas to be held therein. Type: Grant Filed: May 31, 2016 Date of Patent: April 24, 2018 Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Inventors: Thomas R. Albrecht, Darya Amin-Shahidi, Toshiki Hirano, Kirk B. Price Planar memory cell architectures in resistive memory devices Patent number: 9953705 Abstract: To provide enhanced data storage devices and systems, various systems, architectures, apparatuses, and methods, are provided herein. In a first example, a resistive random access memory (ReRAM) array is provided. The ReRAM array includes a plurality of memory cells each comprising resistive memory material formed into a layer of a substrate, with resistance properties of the resistive memory material corresponding to data bits stored by the memory cells. The ReRAM array also includes a plurality of interconnect features each comprising conductive material between adjacent memory cells formed into the layer of the substrate, and gate portions coupled onto the memory cells and configured to individually alter the resistance properties of the resistive memory material of associated memory cells responsive to at least voltages applied to the gate portions. Type: Grant Filed: April 26, 2016 Date of Patent: April 24, 2018 Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Inventor: Daniel Bedau Host configured multi serial interface device Patent number: 9946681 Abstract: A dynamically configurable device including a connector configured to detect a first status of an interface selection mechanism, and a first Serializer De-serializer (SerDes) configured to drive a first selected interface from among a plurality of interfaces based on the first status. In response to the first status having a first state, the first selected interface is a first interface that causes the dynamically configurable device to present as a first type of device, and in response to the first status having a second state, the first selected interface is a second interface that causes the dynamically configurable device to present as a second type of device. Type: Grant Filed: June 29, 2015 Date of Patent: April 17, 2018 Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Inventors: Dean M. Jenkins, Dale Charles Main Systems and methods for predicting compressibility of data Patent number: 9946464 Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting the compressibility of data in a flash storage device are provided. One such method involves extracting byte intervals from the block of data, each of the byte intervals consisting of a preselected number of bytes, performing a hash function to map the byte intervals into a plurality of bins, the plurality of bins comprising one bin for each possible value of the byte intervals, incrementing a hit count each time more than one of the byte intervals is mapped into a single bin of the plurality of bins, and determining whether to compress the block of data based on a comparison of a ratio of the hit count to a total number of the byte intervals and a preselected threshold. This method may be implemented in hardware to ensure fast and efficient execution. Type: Grant Filed: June 16, 2017 Date of Patent: April 17, 2018 Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Inventors: Wei Huang, Sanjay Ramakrishna Pillay, Sanjay Subbarao Compression of indirection tables Patent number: 9946463 Abstract: In general, techniques are described for compressing an indirection table. A device comprising a processor and a memory may be configured to perform the techniques. The processor may be configured to form a plurality of physical containers, each of the plurality of physical containers representative of a plurality of physical block addresses, wherein each of the plurality of physical containers corresponds to one or more logical block address. The memory may be configured to store an indirection table that maps the logical block addresses to the plurality of physical containers. The processor may be further configured to perform run-length encoding of the plurality of physical containers to compress the indirection table. Type: Grant Filed: July 12, 2016 Date of Patent: April 17, 2018 Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Inventors: Stephanie Louise Aho, David Robison Hall, John Helmy Shaker Marcos Bit-level indirection defragmentation Patent number: 9946490 Abstract: In general, techniques are described for logical defragmenting of a storage device. A controller of a storage device groups sequential logical block addresses of a logical span into a plurality of groups. Each group includes a same number of logical block addresses, and each logical block address references a physical location of a physical block on the storage device. For each group, the controller determines whether at least one logical block address references a physical location of a physical block that includes valid data. Responsive to the at least one logical block address referencing valid data, the controller stores a first value to a field of a bit-level indirection table. The bit-level indirection table includes a number of fields equal to a number of groups of sequential logical block addresses. Responsive none of the logical block addresses referencing valid data, the controller stores a second value to the field. Type: Grant Filed: July 28, 2016 Date of Patent: April 17, 2018 Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Inventor: David Robison Hall Multi-stream journaled replay Patent number: 9946489 Abstract: A method of indirection replay for a flash storage system includes writing data, in a host stream, to blocksets of the flash storage system. The host blocksets are assigned a major sequence number incremented from the most recently closed host blockset. The method includes writing an indirection journal to each host blockset which are associated with the assigned major sequence number. The method includes writing data, in a garbage collection (GC) stream, to other blocksets of the flash storage system. The GC blocksets are assigned a major sequence number, based on the most recently closed host blockset, and a minor sequence number, incremented from the most recently closed GC blockset. The method includes writing an indirection journal to each GC blockset which are associated with the assigned major and minor sequence numbers. The indirection table is constructed by replaying the journals of the blocksets in order of major sequence and minor sequence numbers. Type: Grant Filed: July 27, 2016 Date of Patent: April 17, 2018 Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Inventors: David George Dreyer, Colin Christopher McCambridge, Phillip Peterson, Sanjay Subbarao Secure stream buffer on network attached storage Patent number: 9948618 Abstract: A network attached storage device coupled to a local network and including a network interface configured to receive digital content from a remote content provider outside the local network. The network attached storage device includes storage having a first region accessible by a user of the local network and a secure region. The network attached storage device includes a processor coupled to the storage, the processor configured to control access to the secure region of the storage based on instructions received from a remote content provider. Type: Grant Filed: February 5, 2015 Date of Patent: April 17, 2018 Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Inventors: Dean M. Jenkins, Robert P. Ryan
Trademarks:	MY PASSPORT Computer products, namely, disk drives, computer storage units, namely, computer hardware for storage of digital data, and… Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 77349506 WD VELOCIRAPTOR computer products, namely, hard drives Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 77425290 WD TV Computer hardware, set top boxes, media players, audio-visual accessories, namely, digital electronic devices for recording… Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 77659719 SYNERGYDRIVE Computer hardware, namely, blank disk drives and solid-state drives; computer peripherals Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 77827140 WD RAPTOR Computer products, namely hard drives Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 78258319 WD Computer products, namely hard drives Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 78438064 WD SCORPIO DISK DRIVES; HARD DRIVES Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 78471379 WESTERN DIGITAL Computer products, namely hard drives and disk drives Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 78487350 WD Computer products, namely hard drives and disk drives Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 78488844 WD PASSPORT Computer products, namely hard drives and disk drives Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 78517325 MY BOOK Computer products, namely, disk drives, computer storage units and computer peripherals Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 78881798 MY CLOUD Computer software to connect and manage networked devices for remote access, back-up, sharing, and syncing of documents… Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85027870 SILICONEDGE Computer Hardware, namely semiconductor memory devices Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85172400 MY CLOUD Computer products, namely, data storage products in the nature of digital electronic devices for recording, transmitting… Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85319318 WD 2GO Remote access software for accessing stored data through a network Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85326588 WD BLUE Computer disk drives Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85624943 WD BLACK Computer disk drives Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85624975 WD RED Computer disk drives Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85625041 WD GREEN Computer disk drives Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85625051 ABSOLUTELY Computer products, namely, disk drives, solid-state drives; software for managing, storing, securing, and sharing data;… Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85694201 MY NET computer network routers and switches Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85696055 SILICONDRIVE flash based solid state digital storage media Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85723373 WD Software used to manage, store, secure, protect, encrypt, transfer, customize, prioritize, program, navigate, play, access… Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85723769 WD MY CLOUD Computer software, namely, firmware and mobile applications, used to connect and manage networked devices for remote access… Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85794711 WD Software used to manage, store, secure, protect, encrypt, transfer, customize, prioritize, navigate, play, access, share… Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 85856297 NASWARE Networking software, namely, software for setting up and configuring managed storage and online backup services over wide… Owned by: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Serial Number: 86058505
Lawsuits:	COLLINS V. WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., No. 12-1009 (Fed. Cir. 2012) Universal Transdata, LLC v. Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Plaintiff: Universal Transdata, LLC Defendant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Case Number: 1:2018cv00421 Filed: March 19, 2018 Court: Delaware District Court Office: Wilmington Office County: XX US, Outside State Presiding Judge: Gregory M. Sleet Nature of Suit: Patent Cause of Action: 35:271 Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, LLC v. WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. et al Petitioner: MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, LLC Respondent: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., WESTER DIGITAL CORPORATION, SANDISK LLC, SANDISK LIMITED, SANDISK STORAGE MALAYSIA SDN., BHD and SANDISK SEMICONDUCTOR (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD. Case Number: 1:2017mc01238 Filed: May 19, 2017 Court: District Of Columbia District Court Office: Washington, DC Office County: 88888 Presiding Judge: Tanya S. Chutkan Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions Cause of Action: Motion for Production of Documents & Continued Deposition Jury Demanded By: None MobileExp, LLC v. Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Plaintiff: MobileExp, LLC Defendant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Case Number: 2:2016cv01339 Filed: November 30, 2016 Court: Texas Eastern District Court Office: Marshall Office County: Harrison Presiding Judge: Rodney Gilstrap Nature of Suit: Patent Cause of Action: 35:271 Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff
OFAC Sanctions List Search:	The company is not listed in the OFAC list.
SUMMARY
	The company was incorporated in 1987 and is based in Irvine, California. Western Digital Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation. Western Digital Technologies, Inc. mainly imports from Taiwan and Malaysia and exports to Colombia, Mexico and Thailand. It is ACTIVE in DELAWARE, USA; with no negative.
RISK INFORMATION
DEBTS	Medium
PAYMENTS	Slow
CASH FLOW	Normal
STATUS	ACTIVE
INTERVIEW
NAME	NA
POSITION	OPERATOR
COMMENTS	He confirmed the company’s name. He told us that the address 3355 Micheson Drive, Irvine, California 92612 corresponds to the company’s Corporate Headquarters. He also told us that the company shares their website with its parent company.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

Currency	Unit	Indian Rupees
US Dollar	1	INR 66.76
UK Pound	1	INR 90.58
Euro	1	INR 79.97
US Dollar	1	INR 66.82

Note : Above are approximate rates obtained from sources believed to be correct

INFORMATION DETAILS

Analysis Done by :	PRI
Report Prepared by :	TPT

RATING EXPLANATIONS

Credit Rating	Explanation	Rating Comments
A++	Minimum Risk	Business dealings permissible with minimum risk of default
A+	Low Risk	Business dealings permissible with low risk of default
A	Acceptable Risk	Business dealings permissible with moderate risk of default
B	Medium Risk	Business dealings permissible on a regular monitoring basis
C	Medium High Risk	Business dealings permissible preferably on secured basis
D	High Risk	Business dealing not recommended or on secured terms only
NB	New Business	No recommendation can be done due to business in infancy stage
NT	No Trace	No recommendation can be done as the business is not traceable

NB is stated where there is insufficient information to facilitate rating. However, it is not to be considered as unfavourable.

This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors are as follows:

· Financial condition covering various ratios

· Company background and operations size

· Promoters / Management background

· Payment record

· Litigation against the subject

· Industry scenario / competitor analysis

· Supplier / Customer / Banker review (wherever available)

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