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T M P G   in late
fiscal 1994, and contributed to the Company’s bottom line throughout fis-
cal 1995. The Group improved its financial predictability as our team met
or exceeded its plan in revenue and gross profit.
Fiscal 1995 was our Group’s first full year without a fabrication facil-
ity. On that new basis we were able to show shorter cycle times and lower
costs as we enlarged our set of dependable supply partners. More suppliers
will be added in the current year.
Markets for the Group’s input/output products offer outstanding
growth opportunities. They are highly competitive, but these markets offer
opportunities for exciting technological advancements in the high-speed
links between computing, storage and peripherals.
Microcomputer Products last year began shipping exciting new prod-
ucts that were leveraged from earlier technological developments. We
announced and shipped three host controller products based on our highly successful SCSI device
controllers—products that provide access to high-performance Small Computer System Interface
capabilities for personal computers using the familiar Peripheral Component Interconnect bus.
Developments in fiscal 1995 proved Western Digital’s Modulinc acquisition to be a sound
strategic move, as it improved our capabilities in the exciting business of high-speed, fibre channel
fabric communications. This remarkable technology permits better and faster enterprise-wide
communication of data across the campus of a university, a medical center or a large corporation.
Western Digital’s leadership position in information storage management is further
enhanced by the addition of these new products. With the Company’s background in highly inte-
grated semiconductor devices, input/output links, software and board designs, our team is set to
leverage its knowledge into a much broader line of products for high-performance data communi-
cation channels.
   Microcomputer Products  .
Kenneth E. Hendrickson,
Ex ecutive Vice President, Microcomputer Products Group
Kenneth E. Hendrickson
Worldwide Enterprise
Computer Market
Forecast (Clients,
Servers, Workstations,
and Multi-user Systems)
(units in millions)
Input/ Output Products
Source: IDC, 1995