Western Digital Corp is still shrinking, and the Irvine, California company has now sold its input-output device unit to Adaptec Inc for $33m and a royalty agreement, and passed some of its foundry capacity over to the Milpitas disk controller specialist, and its Fiber Channel business to Vixel Corp – both deals were announced in February (CI No 2,847), although the Adaptec one was then tagged at $45m. Western Digital, now solely a disk drive company, is scaling back its headquarters operations following the deals, and will have 240 fewer employees after the deals – it is directly cutting 130 jobs to bring costs in line.
