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Issuer:     WESTERN DIGITAL CORP (WDC)
CIK:        0000106040
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-03-04T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-24-056949
Event type: m_and_a
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 1.01, 8.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Western Digital to sell 80% of SanDisk Shanghai to JCET for ~$624M
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- SanDisk China to sell 80% of SDSS to JCET for ~$624M (valuation $780M); closing expected Q3 2024.
- Payment over 5 years: $218.4M at closing, $218.4M in second tranche, $187.2M in five annual installments.
- Proceeds to strengthen balance sheet ahead of planned separation of HDD and Flash businesses.
- Post-closing, JCET owns 80%, SanDisk China retains 20%; SDSS deconsolidated and accounted for under equity method.
- Expected modest reduction in annual op ex and capex for Flash assembly/test; small increase in Flash cost of revenue.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/106040/000119312524056949/0001193125-24-056949-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/106040/000119312524056949/d801542d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-056949

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