Western Digital Leverages Agentic AI to Boost Growth Amid Rising Demand for Unstructured Data Storage

Western Digital Corporation (WDC) is leveraging Agentic AI to accelerate and enhance product development processes, driving a growing demand for unstructured data storage. The company's HDDs remain unmatched in cost efficiency and reliability, forming the core of the global data infrastructure. Shipments of its newest PMR drives more than doubled sequentially in the June quarter, reflecting one of the fastest qualification and ramp-up cycles in WDC's history. WDC's revenues increased 30% year over year to $2.61 billion, driven by strong demand for high-capacity HDD storage supporting cloud and generative AI workloads.