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Forward-Looking Statements
This document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Any statements that do not relate
to historical or current facts or matters are forward-looking statements. You can identify some of the forward-looking statements by the use of
forward-looking words, such as “may,” “will,” “could,” “project,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “estimate,” “continue,” “potential,”
“plan,” “forecasts,” and the like, or the use of future tense. Statements concerning current conditions may also be forward-looking if they imply a
continuation of current conditions. Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning:
•growth in demand for hard drives in the desktop, mobile, enterprise and consumer electronics markets and factors contributing to
such growth;
•our plans to develop new products and to continue our expansion into non-desktop markets, such as mobile, consumer electronics,
retail, and enterprise markets, and into emerging geographic markets;
•acceptance and emergence of the SATA and SAS interfaces in the enterprise market;
•increase in demand for higher capacity hard drives;
•our plans to design and manufacture a substantial portion of the heads and media required for the hard drives we manufacture;
•our beliefs regarding the adequacy of our facilities and fabrication capacity and our expansion plans for our head wafer
fabrication facilities in Fremont, California;
•our share repurchase plans;
•our long-term product component purchase commitments;
•our future effective tax rates;
•expectations regarding our capital expenditure plans and our depreciation and amortization expense in fiscal 2009; and
•beliefs regarding the sufficiency of our cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments to meet our working capital needs.
Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
expressed in the forward-looking statements. You are urged to carefully review the disclosures we make concerning risks and other factors
that may affect our business and operating results, including those made in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and
any of those made in our other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). You are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this document. We do not intend, and undertake
no obligation, to publish revised forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this document or to reflect
the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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