Recently Seagate published a quarterly report ,it showed that this manufacturer of hard drives also received a portion with the emergency situation by replacing the computer park after Windows XP cessation support . True, Western Digital still felt a rise in sales, three months ago.
In the reporting period - July to September 2014 - Seagate has raised $ 3.79 billion. A year ago, the revenue for the same period was $ 3.5 billion., And in the second quarter of 2014 - $ 3.3 billion. Thus, according to the company's revenue Seagate seems to revert to the maximum, which it was able to achieve two years ago. Net income for the quarter increased sequentially to $ 320 million. To $ 381 million., But compared to last year's result declined from $ 427 million. But during the reporting period, the company has put on the market a record number of drives - 59.5 million. Pieces. This is 7 million. HDD more than in the previous quarter.
The company notes that the greatest demand is for hybrid hard drives. In total the company has shipped 12 million. SSHD, 3 million. Of which were shipped during the reporting period. Of the total volume sold hard drives corporate drive took 8.8 million. Pieces (against 7.4 mln. Pieces in the second quarter), desktop HDD 18.7 million. Units (previous quarter - 18.4 million.) Notebook drives sold a record - 20.2 million. (before - 16.8 million.) for consoles and electronics shipped 6 million. HDD (in the previous quarter - 5.1 million.) boxed drives sold 5.7 million. (before - 4.8 million.).
In the fourth quarter, Seagate expects about the same demand on the HDD, as in the third, and promises to earn from sales drives $ 3.7 billion.