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Seagate Technology
Specifically, the disk-drive maker said that while Q1 revenue would come in slightly above estimates -- $2.9 billion versus $2.84 billion, according to Yahoo! Finance -- adjusted earnings would fall to $0.33 from $0.37 a year ago. Analysts had been calling for $0.44 a share in profit.
What happened? CEO Steve Luczo didn't have much of an answer when pressed. Instead, he talked of matching inventories to customer demands. He's undoubtedly right. U.S. PC shipments fell between 4% and 5% in the second quarter, according to research firms Gartner and IDC.
Apple
Seagate isn't a major supplier to Apple. Rather, Dell
What's more, while magnetic drives remain a staple of data center storage infrastructure, large-scale flash technology from STEC
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