Thread regarding Western Digital Corp. layoffs

Seagate to pay $300 million penalty for shipping Huawei hard drives

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/19/tech/china-seagate-huawei-penalty-hnk-intl/index.html

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most ethical company

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Post ID: @2tcm+1meVh7Ok

My math put them at around $20 profit per drive sold, for a total sum profit of $150M. Seeing that they were fined $300M and actually lost $20 per drive they sold, they will probably think twice next time.

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Post ID: @1guk+1meVh7Ok

WD over $600M to the IRS, so what's your point, get back to work on HAMR cuz

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Post ID: @egg+1meVh7Ok

And we get to spread the payments out over 5 years so it's even less than $300B in future dollars. He-l, let's do it again.

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Post ID: @vls+1meVh7Ok

“I scratch your back you scratch mine”

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Post ID: @uca+1meVh7Ok

A bit more than $40 per HDD they sold. They got off easy.

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