Seagate
Seagate
SALES PRESENTATION
(Sales Dept)
16 Jan 2018
Prepared by KH Teoh
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Table of Contents
3) Fujimi Products
- Slurry to Seagate Processes
4) Seagate Activities
- Current Activities
- Future Activities
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3) Fujimi Products
- Slurry to Seagate Processes
4) Seagate Activities
- Current Activities
- Future Activities
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Introduction
Seagate is the global leader in data storage solutions, developing
amazing products that enable people and businesses around the
world to create, share and preserve their most critical memories and
business data.
Today data storage is more than just archiving; it’s about providing
ways to analyse information, understand patterns and behaviour, to
re-live experiences and memories. It’s about harnessing stored
information for growth and innovation. Seagate is building on its
heritage of storage leadership to solve the challenge of getting more
out of the living information that’s produced everyday.
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General Information
Seagate Technology PLC (commonly referred to as Seagate) is
an American data storage company. It was incorporated in 1978,
as Shugart Technology. Since 2010, the company is incorporated
in Dublin, Ireland, with operational headquarters in Cupertino,
California, United States.
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General Information
Seagate developed the first 5.25-inch hard disk drive (HDD), the 5-
megabyte ST-506, in 1980. They were a major supplier in
the microcomputer market during the 1980s, especially after the
introduction of the IBM XT in 1983.
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General Information
In 2011 Seagate acquired Samsung’s HDD business and in 2014,
Seagate acquired Xyratex, a storage systems company, for
approximately $375 million.
The same year, it acquired LSI's flash enterprise PCIe flash and SSD
controller products, and its engineering capabilities, from Avago for
$450 million.
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Finished Goods
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Finished Goods
The line initially focused on high-capacity, high-performance SCSI
drives; since 2001, it became Seagate's most popular product as the
hard disk drive industry started to move to a 7200 RPM spindle
speed.
The Seagate Barracuda is a series of hard disk drives and in this series
have a spindle speed of 7200 RPM.
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Finished Goods
Apart from Barracuda, there are some other end products by Seagate
in terms of External / Consumer range such as Portable HDD and
External HDD for Desktop and Macs.
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Finished Goods
Below end products are X-box Game Drive Hub, Play Station 4 Game
Drive and also Enterprise / Data Centre (Nytro).
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Market Position
WW HDD Shipment in 2016 (units in million)
Units shipped in Units shipped in 2016 market
Manufacturer Y/Y growth
2015 2016 share
Seagate 188.51 155.01 -17.8% 36.6%
Toshiba 75.75 93.55 23.5% 22.1%
WDC 204.47 175.51 -14.2% 41.4%
TOTAL 468.73 424.07 -9.5% 100%
These three firms shipped 424 million HDD units in calendar 2016,
representing a fall of 9.5% YoY (year-over-year), as compared to the 468
million units shipped in 2015.
At the end of 2016, Western Digital continued to lead the market with a share
of 41.4%, followed by Seagate and Toshiba at 36.6% and 22.1%, respectively
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Market Position
Revenue Comparison
Both charts show a rise-and-fall pattern, with Seagate's more marked. Since
2012, Seagate annual revenues have declined from $14.94bn to $11.2bn in
fiscal 2016, down 25 per cent, and a projected $10.9bn in fiscal 2017.
It appears that WD has been managed better than Seagate since 2012.
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Market Position
Seagate : Fiscal 4Q 2017 (ended June 30, 2017 Financial Results
For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017, the company reported revenue of $10.8
billion, gross margin of 29.5%, net income of $772 million.
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Market Position
Investors’ Worrying Situation
• Global annual revenue for FY17 is the lowest one since FY11 and
down 4% from the former fiscal year.
• For the quarter sales fall 10% sequentially and 9% Y/Y.
• Net income down 41% Q/Q to $114 million
• Even total drive capacity shipped decreased 3% from the former
quarter to 62.2EB and average capacity per drive shipped is the
same as for the former three-month period, 1.8TB, a figure that
was constantly growing since many years.
• Cuts number of employees by 600
• Shares were down $7.36, or 19%, at $32.40
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Market Position
Investors’ Worrying Situation
This bad situation could explain the replacement of Steve Luczo by Dave
Mosley as CEO effective last October being in charge to find a new
business model for the company to try to expand, as it is almost totally
concentrated on HDDs becoming a shrinking market, and never becoming
a leader in SSDs.
Without any change Seagate's sales could be below $10 billion next fiscal
year. Revenue is expected to be a little better next quarter: between $2.5 to
2.6 billion.
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Market Position
Shipments of hard and solid state disk (HDD/SSD) drives worldwide from
2015 to 2021 (in millions)
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Tardy entry into helium drives
The drives were filled with helium instead if air, and it had lower friction
than air, meaning disk platters didn't need to be so strong, and could be
thinner, meaning more could be fitted inside a standard drive enclosure,
meaning an 80 per cent or better capacity increase.
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Market Position
Seagate preferred to develop shingled magnetic recording (SMR) as a a
PMR capacity boost and look to post-PMR HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic
recording) technology, then slated to arrive in 2016, as its areal density
get-out-of-PMR-jail card.
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Hybrid flash-disk drives
The obvious halfway house was to fit a small slug of flash cache to disk
drives and so speed up access to high-priority data.
Seagate, and lots of other companies, took to this view and introduced
what became a stream of hybrid small form factor (2.5-inch) drives for
notebooks and even tablet computers.
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The first was a Momentus 5400 PSD drive in 2006. It was followed by
the Momentus XT in May 2010.
Back in 2012, we wrote that "Luczo said that by 2017 over 85 per cent of
Seagate's HDD production will be of hybrid drives, covering both
consumer and enterprise products. Cold boot times are just 2 secs slower
than an SSD, making hybrid HDDs a good fit for the tablet and Ultrabook
notebook market.“
However, it was not to be. The price of flash bits fell fast enough for
buyers to split into two camps; SSD fans willing to spend cash on
performance, and disk fans preferring to spend it on capacity.
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Market Position
Tablet computers went for flash because of concerns about power
consumption, weight and fragility around disks. Suppliers like Apple
twinned proper SSDs with disk drives in its Fusion drive idea.
Seagate would have made a better choice by going full tilt into supplying
SSDs, which is what fellow disk drive manufacturers Toshiba and Western
Digital did.
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- Slurry to Seagate Processes
4) Seagate Activities
- Current Activities
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Organization Chart
Seagate
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In plant 2, for 1P polishing machine total is 76 units and brand is Wittig and
capacity is 25 disks/machine.
For 2P polishing machine total is 40 units and brand is Speed Fam with
capacity 50 disk/machine.
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Fujimi Products
3) Fujimi Products
- Slurry to Seagate Processes
4) Seagate Activities
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1P Sample Z1709
How to improve ?
Adding additives that work as protection layer and increase small
silica particle population. Small silica particle adhere to the disk
surface and they would behave as protection layer.
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1P Sample Z1709
Next actions :
Waiting for Seagate down time
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Background
Previous test W1512G2 and W1512G3 show significant lower MRR and
worst HMSWQ performance than POR.
Test plan :
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Test Results :
1.Both G4 and G5 slurry show significant worst MRR than POR. Unable
to meet MR spec limit.
2.G4 shows comparison AOI yield and Scl with POR whereas slightly
worst for G5.
3.No major issue on 95AT Post AWI and HMSWQ_P at MD & OD.
4.G5 shows slightly worst sector max at MD compare to POR. No issue
for G4.
5.G4 shows worse wrinkle than POR whereas G5 show comparable
wrinkle performance with POR.
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Test Results :
Seagate Activities
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Current Activities
Tatsu currently under qualification stage (no mass production yet). Last
quarter 8k sample submitted to Media. Next year March will submit another
120k to media as second qualification. Their plan is 500k during MP but so far
nothing is confirmed, only plan.
Tatsu can not meet the requirement of HMS Wq Max and HMS Wq, this is the
qualification problem and internal struggle to improve.
If Tatsu approved, this program will run in plant 1 and expected running only
10% of Makara Plus. Priority still to run Makara Plus.
Fujimi 1P (Z1709) and 2P (W1512 G4 G5) sample will be used in Makara plus
program if approved.
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Future Activities
Current glass production line up as POR is based on conventional
processes which include lapping, 1P (Cerium Oxide), 2P (Silica Acidic Base)
and etc… based on Fremont processes.
By mid of Jan ‘18, Seagate will send the 1st qualification sample to
Woodland plant.
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That’s all.
Thank you.
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