Word has it that WD Singapore will close by end of Sep 2016. It was formerly a HOYA company bought over by WD in 2011 to acquire the laptop HDD know how after getting very little inroads to small form HDD. Previously, it bought 2.5 media from HOYA and Showa Denko for their top range laptop HDD.
All staff will be laid off by the end of the year except for a handful who were given a choice to move over to Penang.