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πŸ“„ Earnings Call Transcript λ²ˆμ—­ κ²°κ³Ό

πŸ“Š Presentation

Original Translation
Western Digital Corporation (WDC) Q2 2026 Earnings Call January 29, 2026 4:30 PM EST

Company Participants

Ambrish Srivastava - Vice President of Investor Relations
Tiang Yew Tan - CEO & Director
Kris Sennesael - Executive VP & CFO

Conference Call Participants

Aaron Rakers - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
Erik Woodring - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Christopher Muse - Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Research Division
Aisling Grueninger - BofA Securities, Research Division
Michael Cadiz - Citigroup Inc., Research Division
Hannah Liu - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division
Karl Ackerman - BNP Paribas, Research Division
Thomas O'Malley - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Vijay Rakesh - Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Research Division
Steven Fox - Fox Advisors LLC
Ananda Baruah - Loop Capital Markets LLC, Research Division
Hadi Orabi - TD Cowen, Research Division

Presentation

Operator

Good afternoon, and thank you for standing by.
μ›¨μŠ€ν„΄ λ””μ§€ν„Έ (WDC) 2026λ…„ 2λΆ„κΈ° 싀적 λ°œν‘œ 컨퍼런슀 콜 2026λ…„ 1μ›” 29일 μ˜€ν›„ 4μ‹œ 30λΆ„ (λ―Έκ΅­ 동뢀 ν‘œμ€€μ‹œ)

νšŒμ‚¬ μ°Έμ„μž

Ambrish Srivastava - 투자자 관계 뢀사μž₯
Tiang Yew Tan - CEO κ²Έ 이사
Kris Sennesael - 전무이사 κ²Έ CFO

컨퍼런슀 콜 참석 μ• λ„λ¦¬μŠ€νŠΈ

Aaron Rakers - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έ
Erik Woodring - Morgan Stanley, λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έ
Christopher Muse - Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έ
Aisling Grueninger - BofA Securities, λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έ
Michael Cadiz - Citigroup Inc., λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έ
Hannah Liu - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έ
Karl Ackerman - BNP Paribas, λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έ
Thomas O'Malley - Barclays Bank PLC, λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έ
Vijay Rakesh - Mizuho Securities USA LLC, λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έ
Steven Fox - Fox Advisors LLC
Ananda Baruah - Loop Capital Markets LLC, λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έ
Hadi Orabi - TD Cowen, λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έ

λ°œν‘œ

운영자

쒋은 μ˜€ν›„μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λŒ€κΈ°ν•΄ μ£Όμ…”μ„œ κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Welcome to Western Digital's Second Quarter Fiscal 2026 Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this call is being recorded. Now I will turn the call over to Mr. Ambrish Srivastava, Vice President, Investor Relations. You may begin. Ambrish Srivastava
Vice President of Investor Relations

Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. Joining me today are Irving Tan, Western Digital's Chief Executive Officer; and Kris Sennesael, Western Digital's Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, please note that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements based on management's current assumptions and expectations, which are subject to various risks and uncertainties.
μ›¨μŠ€ν„΄ λ””μ§€ν„Έμ˜ 2026 νšŒκ³„μ—°λ„ 2λΆ„κΈ° μ‹€μ λ°œν‘œ 컨퍼런슀 μ½œμ— μ˜€μ‹  것을 ν™˜μ˜ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. [운영자 μ•ˆλ‚΄μ‚¬ν•­] λ³Έ ν†΅ν™”λŠ” λ…ΉμŒλ˜κ³  μžˆμŒμ„ μ•Œλ €λ“œλ¦½λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이제 투자자 관계 λ‹΄λ‹Ή 뢀사μž₯ Ambrish Srivastava λ‹˜κ»˜ μ—°κ²°ν•΄ λ“œλ¦¬κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ‹œμž‘ν•˜μ‹œμ£ .

Ambrish Srivastava
투자자 관계 λ‹΄λ‹Ή 뢀사μž₯

κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ—¬λŸ¬λΆ„, μ•ˆλ…•ν•˜μ‹­λ‹ˆκΉŒ. 였늘 저와 ν•¨κ»˜ μ›¨μŠ€ν„΄ λ””μ§€ν„Έμ˜ 졜고경영자 Irving Tanκ³Ό μ΅œκ³ μž¬λ¬΄μ±…μž„μž Kris Sennesael이 μ°Έμ„ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ‹œμž‘ν•˜κΈ° 전에, 였늘 λ…Όμ˜ λ‚΄μš©μ—λŠ” κ²½μ˜μ§„μ˜ ν˜„μž¬ κ°€μ •κ³Ό μ˜ˆμƒμ— κΈ°λ°˜ν•œ λ―Έλž˜μ˜ˆμΈ‘μ§„μˆ μ΄ 포함될 것이며, μ΄λŠ” λ‹€μ–‘ν•œ μœ„ν—˜κ³Ό λΆˆν™•μ‹€μ„±μ˜ 영ν–₯을 받을 수 μžˆμŒμ„ μ•Œλ €λ“œλ¦½λ‹ˆλ‹€.
These forward-looking statements include expectations for our product portfolio, our business plans and performance, ongoing market trends and our future financial results. We assume no obligation to update these statements. Please refer to our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and our other filings with the SEC for more information on the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. In our prepared remarks, our comments will be related to non-GAAP results on a continuing operations basis, unless stated otherwise.μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ λ―Έλž˜μ˜ˆμΈ‘μ§„μˆ μ—λŠ” λ‹Ήμ‚¬μ˜ μ œν’ˆ 포트폴리였, 사업 κ³„νš 및 싀적, 지속적인 μ‹œμž₯ 동ν–₯, 그리고 ν–₯ν›„ 재무 성과에 λŒ€ν•œ κΈ°λŒ€κ°€ ν¬ν•¨λ˜μ–΄ μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ‹Ήμ‚¬λŠ” μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ μ§„μˆ μ„ μ—…λ°μ΄νŠΈν•  의무λ₯Ό μ§€μ§€ μ•ŠμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ‹€μ œ κ²°κ³Όκ°€ μ˜ˆμƒκ³Ό 크게 λ‹€λ₯Ό 수 μžˆλŠ” μœ„ν—˜κ³Ό λΆˆν™•μ‹€μ„±μ— λŒ€ν•œ μžμ„Έν•œ μ •λ³΄λŠ” Form 10-K둜 제좜된 λ‹Ήμ‚¬μ˜ 졜근 μ—°μ°¨λ³΄κ³ μ„œ 및 SEC에 제좜된 기타 μ„œλ₯˜λ₯Ό μ°Έμ‘°ν•˜μ‹œκΈ° λ°”λžλ‹ˆλ‹€. μ€€λΉ„λœ λ°œμ–Έμ—μ„œ λ‹Ήμ‚¬μ˜ μ½”λ©˜νŠΈλŠ” λ³„λ„λ‘œ λͺ…μ‹œλ˜μ§€ μ•ŠλŠ” ν•œ κ³„μ†μ˜μ—… κΈ°μ€€μ˜ λΉ„-GAAP 싀적과 κ΄€λ ¨λœ κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Reconciliations between the non-GAAP and comparable GAAP financial measures are included in the press release and other materials that are being posted in the Investor Relations section of our website at investor.wdc.com. Lastly, I want to note that when we refer to we, us, are or similar terms, we are referring only to Western Digital as a company and not speaking on behalf of the industry. With that, I will now turn the call over to Irving for introductory remarks. Irving? Tiang Yew Tan
CEO & Director

Thanks, Ambrish, and good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. The growth and impact of AI continues to accelerate across numerous industries.
κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€, Ambrish. 그리고 μ•ˆλ…•ν•˜μ„Έμš”, μ—¬λŸ¬λΆ„. 였늘 참석해 μ£Όμ…”μ„œ κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. AI의 μ„±μž₯κ³Ό 영ν–₯λ ₯은 μˆ˜λ§Žμ€ μ‚°μ—… μ „λ°˜μ— 걸쳐 κ³„μ†ν•΄μ„œ κ°€μ†ν™”λ˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
As generative AI models become the norm and agentic AI scales to drive business productivity, it is clear that AI is becoming a true strategic enabler of business transformation. AI inference has also begun to take hold in many ways becoming the true AI workload with deployment to chat bots and virtual assistants and customer relationship management tools. Further innovations in physical AI are also accelerating quickly, generating increasingly larger multimodal models propelled by advancements in autonomous vehicles and robotics. In all cases, it is data that is needed to fuel the entire AI process from training to inference to enable stronger models and sharper inference results.AI 생성 λͺ¨λΈμ΄ ν‘œμ€€μ΄ 되고 에이전틱 AIκ°€ ν™•λŒ€λ˜μ–΄ λΉ„μ¦ˆλ‹ˆμŠ€ 생산성을 견인함에 따라, AIκ°€ λΉ„μ¦ˆλ‹ˆμŠ€ ν˜μ‹ μ˜ μ§„μ •ν•œ μ „λž΅μ  동인이 되고 있음이 λΆ„λͺ…ν•΄μ‘ŒμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. AI μΆ”λ‘  λ˜ν•œ 챗봇, 가상 λΉ„μ„œ, 고객관계관리 도ꡬ 등에 λ°°ν¬λ˜λ©΄μ„œ μ—¬λŸ¬ λ°©λ©΄μ—μ„œ 자리λ₯Ό 작기 μ‹œμž‘ν–ˆμœΌλ©°, μ‹€μ§ˆμ μΈ AI μ›Œν¬λ‘œλ“œλ‘œ μžλ¦¬λ§€κΉ€ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ˜ν•œ 물리적 AI λΆ„μ•Όμ˜ ν˜μ‹ λ„ λΉ λ₯΄κ²Œ κ°€μ†ν™”λ˜κ³  있으며, μžμœ¨μ£Όν–‰μ°¨μ™€ λ‘œλ΄‡κ³΅ν•™μ˜ λ°œμ „μ— νž˜μž…μ–΄ 점점 더 λŒ€κ·œλͺ¨μ˜ λ©€ν‹°λͺ¨λ‹¬ λͺ¨λΈμ΄ μƒμ„±λ˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λͺ¨λ“  κ²½μš°μ— μžˆμ–΄, 더 κ°•λ ₯ν•œ λͺ¨λΈκ³Ό 더 μ •ν™•ν•œ μΆ”λ‘  κ²°κ³Όλ₯Ό κ°€λŠ₯ν•˜κ²Œ ν•˜κΈ° μœ„ν•΄μ„œλŠ” ν•™μŠ΅λΆ€ν„° 좔둠에 이λ₯΄λŠ” 전체 AI ν”„λ‘œμ„ΈμŠ€λ₯Ό κ΅¬λ™ν•˜λŠ” 데이터가 ν•„μš”ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€.
And as more data is generated and the value of data increases, the demand to store it is expanding at a rapid rate. As AI capabilities expand, cloud continues to grow as well, and both are driving the surge in demand for higher-density storage solutions. In this new era where AI and cloud dominate, Western Digital has taken a customer-focused approach to managing the strong demand by working closely with our hyperscale customers, ensuring that we deliver reliable, high-capacity drives at scale to give them the best performance and total cost of ownership.그리고 더 λ§Žμ€ 데이터가 μƒμ„±λ˜κ³  λ°μ΄ν„°μ˜ κ°€μΉ˜κ°€ 증가함에 따라, 데이터λ₯Ό μ €μž₯ν•˜λ €λŠ” μˆ˜μš”κ°€ λΉ λ₯Έ μ†λ„λ‘œ ν™•λŒ€λ˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. AI μ—­λŸ‰μ΄ ν™•μž₯λ˜λ©΄μ„œ ν΄λΌμš°λ“œλ„ 계속 μ„±μž₯ν•˜κ³  있으며, 이 두 κ°€μ§€ λͺ¨λ‘ 고밀도 μŠ€ν† λ¦¬μ§€ μ†”λ£¨μ…˜μ— λŒ€ν•œ μˆ˜μš” 급증을 κ²¬μΈν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. AI와 ν΄λΌμš°λ“œκ°€ μ§€λ°°ν•˜λŠ” 이 μƒˆλ‘œμš΄ μ‹œλŒ€μ—, Western Digital은 κ°•λ ₯ν•œ μˆ˜μš”λ₯Ό κ΄€λ¦¬ν•˜κΈ° μœ„ν•΄ 고객 쀑심 μ ‘κ·Ό 방식을 μ·¨ν•˜κ³  있으며, ν•˜μ΄νΌμŠ€μΌ€μΌ 고객듀과 κΈ΄λ°€νžˆ ν˜‘λ ₯ν•˜μ—¬ 졜고의 μ„±λŠ₯κ³Ό μ΄μ†Œμœ λΉ„μš©μ„ μ œκ³΅ν•  수 μžˆλ„λ‘ μ‹ λ’°ν•  수 μžˆλŠ” λŒ€μš©λŸ‰ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ₯Ό λŒ€κ·œλͺ¨λ‘œ κ³΅κΈ‰ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
We are doing this by continuing to focus on increasing our drives areal density and accelerating our HAMR and ePMR road maps as well as upshifting our customers to accelerate adoption of higher capacity drives and UltraSMR technology. This last quarter, we shipped over 3.5 million units of our latest generation ePMR products, offering up to 26 terabyte CMR and 32 terabyte by UltraSMR capacities, representing strong confidence and adoption by our customers. We have also started qualification of our HAMR and next-generation ePMR products, each with a different hyperscale customer.μ €ν¬λŠ” λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒμ˜ 면적 밀도λ₯Ό μ§€μ†μ μœΌλ‘œ 높이고 HAMR 및 ePMR λ‘œλ“œλ§΅μ„ κ°€μ†ν™”ν•˜λŠ” λ™μ‹œμ—, 고객듀이 더 높은 μš©λŸ‰μ˜ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒμ™€ UltraSMR κΈ°μˆ μ„ μ±„νƒν•˜λ„λ‘ μœ λ„ν•˜λŠ” 데 μ§‘μ€‘ν•¨μœΌλ‘œμ¨ 이λ₯Ό μ‹€ν˜„ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ§€λ‚œ 뢄기에 μ €ν¬λŠ” μ΅œμ‹  μ„ΈλŒ€ ePMR μ œν’ˆμ„ 350만 λŒ€ 이상 μΆœν•˜ν–ˆμœΌλ©°, μ΄λŠ” μ΅œλŒ€ 26ν…ŒλΌλ°”μ΄νŠΈ CMR 및 32ν…ŒλΌλ°”μ΄νŠΈ UltraSMR μš©λŸ‰μ„ μ œκ³΅ν•˜λŠ” μ œν’ˆμœΌλ‘œ, κ³ κ°λ“€μ˜ κ°•λ ₯ν•œ 신뒰와 채택을 보여주고 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ˜ν•œ μ €ν¬λŠ” 각기 λ‹€λ₯Έ ν•˜μ΄νΌμŠ€μΌ€μΌ 고객사와 ν•¨κ»˜ HAMR 및 μ°¨μ„ΈλŒ€ ePMR μ œν’ˆμ˜ 인증을 μ‹œμž‘ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
These drives will offer our customers the higher capacity and improve total cost of ownership that they are looking for. In addition, we continue to accelerate our HAMR innovation. To support this, we recently acquired intellectual property assets and talent that will help us in the development of our internal laser capabilities. Also this past quarter, in partnership with software ecosystem partners, we announced our UltraSMR-enabled JBOD platforms, expanding UltraSMR adoption to a broader customer set. These platforms deliver significantly higher storage density compared to conventional drives.μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλŠ” 고객듀이 μ›ν•˜λŠ” 더 높은 μš©λŸ‰κ³Ό κ°œμ„ λœ μ΄μ†Œμœ λΉ„μš©(TCO)을 μ œκ³΅ν•  κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ˜ν•œ, μš°λ¦¬λŠ” HAMR ν˜μ‹ μ„ μ§€μ†μ μœΌλ‘œ κ°€μ†ν™”ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이λ₯Ό μ§€μ›ν•˜κΈ° μœ„ν•΄ 졜근 λ‚΄λΆ€ λ ˆμ΄μ € μ—­λŸ‰ κ°œλ°œμ— 도움이 될 μ§€μ μž¬μ‚°κΆŒ μžμ‚°κ³Ό 인재λ₯Ό μΈμˆ˜ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ˜ν•œ μ§€λ‚œ λΆ„κΈ°μ—λŠ” μ†Œν”„νŠΈμ›¨μ–΄ μƒνƒœκ³„ νŒŒνŠΈλ„ˆλ“€κ³Όμ˜ ν˜‘λ ₯을 톡해 UltraSMR 지원 JBOD ν”Œλž«νΌμ„ λ°œν‘œν•˜μ—¬ UltraSMR 채택을 더 κ΄‘λ²”μœ„ν•œ 고객측으둜 ν™•λŒ€ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ ν”Œλž«νΌμ€ κΈ°μ‘΄ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒ λŒ€λΉ„ 훨씬 높은 μŠ€ν† λ¦¬μ§€ 밀도λ₯Ό μ œκ³΅ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€.
giving customers hyperscale-like performance and make mass scale data analysis more sustainable and efficient. We are truly seeing our approach resonate with our customers, and this is reflected in longer-term agreements and better visibility into their requirements. We have firm purchase orders with our top seven customers through calendar year 2026. We also have in place robust commercial agreements with three of our top five customers, two through calendar year 2027 and one through calendar year 2028. These agreements indicate a strong trust that we have built with our customers and confidence in our ability to meet their exabyte needs.κ³ κ°λ“€μ—κ²Œ ν•˜μ΄νΌμŠ€μΌ€μΌ μˆ˜μ€€μ˜ μ„±λŠ₯을 μ œκ³΅ν•˜κ³  λŒ€κ·œλͺ¨ 데이터 뢄석을 보닀 지속가λŠ₯ν•˜κ³  효율적으둜 λ§Œλ“€κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 우리의 μ ‘κ·Ό 방식이 κ³ κ°λ“€μ—κ²Œ μ§„μ •μœΌλ‘œ 곡감을 μ–»κ³  있으며, μ΄λŠ” μž₯κΈ° 계약과 고객 μš”κ΅¬μ‚¬ν•­μ— λŒ€ν•œ 더 λ‚˜μ€ κ°€μ‹œμ„±μœΌλ‘œ λ‚˜νƒ€λ‚˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μš°λ¦¬λŠ” μƒμœ„ 7개 고객사와 2026λ…„κΉŒμ§€ ν™•μ • ꡬ맀 주문을 ν™•λ³΄ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ˜ν•œ μƒμœ„ 5개 고객사 쀑 3개 고객사와 κ²¬κ³ ν•œ 상업 계약을 μ²΄κ²°ν–ˆλŠ”λ°, 2κ°œμ‚¬λŠ” 2027λ…„κΉŒμ§€, 1κ°œμ‚¬λŠ” 2028λ…„κΉŒμ§€μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ 계약듀은 μš°λ¦¬κ°€ 고객듀과 κ΅¬μΆ•ν•œ κ°•λ ₯ν•œ 신뒰와 κ·Έλ“€μ˜ μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈκΈ‰ μš”κ΅¬μ‚¬ν•­μ„ μΆ©μ‘±μ‹œν‚¬ 수 μžˆλŠ” 우리의 μ—­λŸ‰μ— λŒ€ν•œ 확신을 λ³΄μ—¬μ€λ‹ˆλ‹€.
We are hosting an Innovation Day on February 3rd in New York next week, where we will share updated road maps for our HAMR and ePMR products as well as further details on core innovations that we are developing to improve our drives performance, energy efficiency and throughput. We will also provide an update on our financial model. In keeping with our strategy to incubate new growth vectors based on our intellectual property and core capabilities, last month, we announced a strategic investment in Qolab, which combines our expertise in material science and precision manufacturing with Qolab's breakthrough approach to quantum hardware design.λ‹€μŒ μ£Ό 2μ›” 3일 λ‰΄μš•μ—μ„œ ν˜μ‹ μ˜ λ‚ (Innovation Day) 행사λ₯Ό κ°œμ΅œν•  μ˜ˆμ •μ΄λ©°, 이 μžλ¦¬μ—μ„œ HAMR 및 ePMR μ œν’ˆμ— λŒ€ν•œ μ—…λ°μ΄νŠΈλœ λ‘œλ“œλ§΅κ³Ό ν•¨κ»˜ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒ μ„±λŠ₯, μ—λ„ˆμ§€ νš¨μœ¨μ„± 및 μ²˜λ¦¬λŸ‰ κ°œμ„ μ„ μœ„ν•΄ 개발 쀑인 핡심 ν˜μ‹  κΈ°μˆ μ— λŒ€ν•œ μ„ΈλΆ€ 사항을 κ³΅μœ ν•  κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ˜ν•œ 재무 λͺ¨λΈμ— λŒ€ν•œ μ—…λ°μ΄νŠΈλ„ μ œκ³΅ν•  μ˜ˆμ •μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ‹Ήμ‚¬μ˜ μ§€μ μž¬μ‚°κΆŒκ³Ό 핡심 μ—­λŸ‰μ„ 기반으둜 μƒˆλ‘œμš΄ μ„±μž₯ 동λ ₯을 μœ‘μ„±ν•œλ‹€λŠ” μ „λž΅μ— 따라, μ§€λ‚œλ‹¬ Qolab에 λŒ€ν•œ μ „λž΅μ  투자λ₯Ό λ°œν‘œν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŠ” 재료 κ³Όν•™ 및 μ •λ°€ 제쑰 λΆ„μ•Όμ˜ 당사 μ „λ¬Έμ„±κ³Ό Qolab의 획기적인 μ–‘μž ν•˜λ“œμ›¨μ–΄ 섀계 접근법을 κ²°ν•©ν•œ κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Working with Qolab, we aim to advance next-generation nanofabrication processes that improve qubit performance, reliability and scalability. Looking ahead, we see our positive momentum continuing and we will remain focused on supporting our customers' exabyte storage requirements while completing qualifications and launching our next-generation HAMR and ePMR drives. I will now hand it over to Kris to share our Q2 results and outlook for Q3. Kris Sennesael
Executive VP & CFO

Thank you, Irving, and good afternoon, everyone.
Qolab과의 ν˜‘λ ₯을 톡해 νλΉ„νŠΈ μ„±λŠ₯, μ‹ λ’°μ„± 및 ν™•μž₯성을 κ°œμ„ ν•˜λŠ” μ°¨μ„ΈλŒ€ λ‚˜λ…Έμ œμ‘° 곡정을 λ°œμ „μ‹œν‚€λŠ” 것을 λͺ©ν‘œλ‘œ ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ•žμœΌλ‘œλ„ 긍정적인 λͺ¨λ©˜ν…€μ΄ 지속될 κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ 보이며, κ³ κ°λ“€μ˜ μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈ μŠ€ν† λ¦¬μ§€ μš”κ΅¬μ‚¬ν•­μ„ μ§€μ›ν•˜λŠ” λ™μ‹œμ— μ°¨μ„ΈλŒ€ HAMR 및 ePMR λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒμ˜ 인증 μ™„λ£Œμ™€ μΆœμ‹œμ— 집쀑할 κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이제 Krisμ—κ²Œ 마이크λ₯Ό λ„˜κ²¨ 2λΆ„κΈ° 싀적과 3λΆ„κΈ° 전망을 κ³΅μœ ν•˜λ„λ‘ ν•˜κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.

Kris Sennesael
μ΅œκ³ μž¬λ¬΄μ±…μž„μž(CFO) κ²Έ 전무이사

Irving, κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. 그리고 μ—¬λŸ¬λΆ„ μ•ˆλ…•ν•˜μ‹­λ‹ˆκΉŒ.
Western Digital delivered another quarter of strong financial performance, reflecting disciplined execution across our organization and our ability to meet the customers' growing demand in the AI-driven data economy. During the second quarter of fiscal 2026, revenue was $3 billion, up 25% year-over-year, driven by strong demand for our nearline drives. Earnings per share was $2.13. Both revenue and EPS were above the high end of the guidance range. We delivered 215 exabytes to our customers, up 22% year-over-year. This includes over 3.5 million drives or 103 exabytes of our latest generation ePMR with capacity points up to 32 terabytes.μ›¨μŠ€ν„΄λ””μ§€ν„Έμ€ 쑰직 μ „λ°˜μ— 걸친 규율 μžˆλŠ” μ‹€ν–‰λ ₯κ³Ό AI 주도 데이터 κ²½μ œμ—μ„œ 고객의 μ¦κ°€ν•˜λŠ” μˆ˜μš”λ₯Ό μΆ©μ‘±μ‹œν‚€λŠ” μ—­λŸ‰μ„ λ°˜μ˜ν•˜μ—¬ 또 ν•œ λΆ„κΈ° κ°•λ ₯ν•œ 재무 μ„±κ³Όλ₯Ό λ‹¬μ„±ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 2026 νšŒκ³„μ—°λ„ 2λΆ„κΈ° λ™μ•ˆ λ§€μΆœμ€ 30μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬λ‘œ μ „λ…„ 동기 λŒ€λΉ„ 25% μ¦κ°€ν–ˆμœΌλ©°, μ΄λŠ” λ‹ˆμ–΄λΌμΈ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒμ— λŒ€ν•œ κ°•λ ₯ν•œ μˆ˜μš”μ— νž˜μž…μ€ κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ£Όλ‹Ήμˆœμ΄μ΅μ€ 2.13λ‹¬λŸ¬λ₯Ό κΈ°λ‘ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 맀좜과 EPS λͺ¨λ‘ κ°€μ΄λ˜μŠ€ λ²”μœ„μ˜ 상단을 μƒνšŒν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.

μš°λ¦¬λŠ” κ³ κ°μ—κ²Œ 215μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈλ₯Ό κ³΅κΈ‰ν–ˆμœΌλ©°, μ΄λŠ” μ „λ…„ 동기 λŒ€λΉ„ 22% μ¦κ°€ν•œ μˆ˜μΉ˜μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ—¬κΈ°μ—λŠ” μ΅œλŒ€ 32ν…ŒλΌλ°”μ΄νŠΈ μš©λŸ‰μ„ κ°–μΆ˜ μ΅œμ‹  μ„ΈλŒ€ ePMR λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒ 350만 λŒ€ 이상, 즉 103μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈκ°€ ν¬ν•¨λ©λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Cloud represented 89% of total revenue at $2.7 billion, up 28% year-over-year, driven by strong demand for our higher capacity nearline product portfolio. Client represented 6% of total revenue at $176 million, up 26% year-over-year. Consumer represented 5% of revenue at $168 million, down 3% year-over-year. Gross margin for the fiscal second quarter was 46.1%. Gross margin improved 770 basis points year-over-year and 220 basis points sequentially. The improved gross margin performance reflects continued mix shift towards higher capacity drives and tight cost control in our manufacturing sites and throughout the supply chain. Operating expenses were $372 million.ν΄λΌμš°λ“œλŠ” 전체 맀좜의 89%λ₯Ό μ°¨μ§€ν–ˆμœΌλ©°, μ „λ…„ 동기 λŒ€λΉ„ 28% μ¦κ°€ν•œ 27μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬λ₯Ό κΈ°λ‘ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŠ” λ‹Ήμ‚¬μ˜ κ³ μš©λŸ‰ λ‹ˆμ–΄λΌμΈ μ œν’ˆ ν¬νŠΈν΄λ¦¬μ˜€μ— λŒ€ν•œ κ°•λ ₯ν•œ μˆ˜μš”μ— νž˜μž…μ€ κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. ν΄λΌμ΄μ–ΈνŠΈλŠ” 전체 맀좜의 6%λ₯Ό μ°¨μ§€ν–ˆμœΌλ©°, μ „λ…„ 동기 λŒ€λΉ„ 26% μ¦κ°€ν•œ 1μ–΅ 7,600만 λ‹¬λŸ¬λ₯Ό κΈ°λ‘ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ»¨μŠˆλ¨ΈλŠ” 맀좜의 5%λ₯Ό μ°¨μ§€ν–ˆμœΌλ©°, μ „λ…„ 동기 λŒ€λΉ„ 3% κ°μ†Œν•œ 1μ–΅ 6,800만 λ‹¬λŸ¬λ₯Ό κΈ°λ‘ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.

2λΆ„κΈ° 맀좜총이읡λ₯ μ€ 46.1%μ˜€μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 맀좜총이읡λ₯ μ€ μ „λ…„ 동기 λŒ€λΉ„ 770bp(λ² μ΄μ‹œμŠ€ν¬μΈνŠΈ), μ „λΆ„κΈ° λŒ€λΉ„ 220bp κ°œμ„ λ˜μ—ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ 맀좜총이읡λ₯  κ°œμ„ μ€ κ³ μš©λŸ‰ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ‘œμ˜ 지속적인 μ œν’ˆ 믹슀 μ „ν™˜κ³Ό 제쑰 ν˜„μž₯ 및 곡급망 μ „λ°˜μ— 걸친 μ—„κ²©ν•œ 원가 관리λ₯Ό λ°˜μ˜ν•œ κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.

μ˜μ—…λΉ„μš©μ€ 3μ–΅ 7,200만 λ‹¬λŸ¬μ˜€μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
As a percentage of revenue, operating expenses declined 120 basis points sequentially, primarily due to operating leverage in the model. Operating income was slightly above $1 billion, translating into an operating margin of 33.8%. Interest and other expenses were $45 million, and our effective tax rate in the fiscal second quarter was 15.1%. Taking into account the diluted share count of 378 million shares, EPS was $2.13, an increase of 78% year-over-year. Turning to the balance sheet. At the end of our fiscal second quarter, cash and cash equivalents were $2 billion and total liquidity was $3.2 billion, including the undrawn revolver capacity.맀좜 λŒ€λΉ„ μ˜μ—…λΉ„μš©μ€ μ „λΆ„κΈ° λŒ€λΉ„ 120bp κ°μ†Œν–ˆμœΌλ©°, μ΄λŠ” 주둜 λͺ¨λΈμ˜ μ˜μ—… λ ˆλ²„λ¦¬μ§€ νš¨κ³Όμ— κΈ°μΈν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ˜μ—…μ΄μ΅μ€ 10μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬λ₯Ό μ†Œν­ μƒνšŒν–ˆμœΌλ©°, μ˜μ—…μ΄μ΅λ₯ μ€ 33.8%λ₯Ό κΈ°λ‘ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이자 및 기타 λΉ„μš©μ€ 4,500만 λ‹¬λŸ¬μ˜€μœΌλ©°, 2λΆ„κΈ° μ‹€νš¨μ„Έμœ¨μ€ 15.1%μ˜€μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. ν¬μ„μ£Όμ‹μˆ˜ 3μ–΅ 7,800만 μ£Όλ₯Ό κ°μ•ˆν•  λ•Œ, μ£Όλ‹Ήμˆœμ΄μ΅(EPS)은 2.13λ‹¬λŸ¬λ‘œ μ „λ…„ 동기 λŒ€λΉ„ 78% μ¦κ°€ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.

λŒ€μ°¨λŒ€μ‘°ν‘œλ‘œ λ„˜μ–΄κ°€κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 2λΆ„κΈ° 말 ν˜„μž¬ ν˜„κΈˆ 및 ν˜„κΈˆμ„±μžμ‚°μ€ 20μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬μ˜€μœΌλ©°, λ―Έμ‚¬μš© 리볼버 ν•œλ„λ₯Ό ν¬ν•¨ν•œ 총 μœ λ™μ„±μ€ 32μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬μ˜€μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Debt outstanding was $4.7 billion, translating into a net debt position of $2.7 billion and a net leverage EBITDA ratio of well below 1 turn. Operating cash flow for the fiscal second quarter was $745 million, and capital expenditures were $92 million, resulting in strong free cash flow generation of $653 million for the quarter, which reflected a free cash flow margin of 21.6%. During the quarter, we made $48 million of dividend payments and increased our share repurchases to $615 million, repurchasing 3.8 million shares of common stock.뢀채 μž”μ•‘μ€ 47μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬λ‘œ, μˆœλΆ€μ±„λŠ” 27μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬λ₯Ό κΈ°λ‘ν–ˆμœΌλ©° μˆœμ°¨μž…κΈˆ/EBITDA λΉ„μœ¨μ€ 1λ°°λ₯Ό 훨씬 λ°‘λŒμ•˜μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 2λΆ„κΈ° μ˜μ—…ν˜„κΈˆνλ¦„μ€ 7μ–΅ 4,500만 λ‹¬λŸ¬μ˜€κ³ , 자본적 μ§€μΆœμ€ 9,200만 λ‹¬λŸ¬λ‘œ, λΆ„κΈ° λ™μ•ˆ 6μ–΅ 5,300만 λ‹¬λŸ¬μ˜ κ²¬μ‘°ν•œ μž‰μ—¬ν˜„κΈˆνλ¦„μ„ μ°½μΆœν–ˆμœΌλ©°, μ΄λŠ” 21.6%의 μž‰μ—¬ν˜„κΈˆνλ¦„ λ§ˆμ§„μ„ λ‚˜νƒ€λƒ…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λΆ„κΈ° 쀑 4,800만 λ‹¬λŸ¬μ˜ λ°°λ‹ΉκΈˆμ„ μ§€κΈ‰ν–ˆμœΌλ©°, μžμ‚¬μ£Ό λ§€μž…μ„ 6μ–΅ 1,500만 λ‹¬λŸ¬λ‘œ ν™•λŒ€ν•˜μ—¬ 보톡주 380만 μ£Όλ₯Ό λ§€μž…ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Since the launch of our capital return program in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, we have returned $1.4 billion to our shareholders by way of share repurchases and dividend payments. Also, today, we announced that our Board has approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.125 per share of the company's common stock, payable on March 18, 2026, to shareholders of record as of March 5, 2026. I will now turn to the outlook for the third quarter of fiscal 2026. We anticipate revenue to be $3.2 billion, plus/minus $100 million. At midpoint, this reflects a growth of approximately 40% year-over-year. Gross margin is expected to be between 47% and 48%.2025 νšŒκ³„μ—°λ„ 4λΆ„κΈ° μžλ³Έν™˜μ› ν”„λ‘œκ·Έλž¨ κ°œμ‹œ 이후, μš°λ¦¬λŠ” μžμ‚¬μ£Ό λ§€μž…κ³Ό λ°°λ‹ΉκΈˆ 지급을 톡해 μ£Όμ£Όλ“€μ—κ²Œ 14μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬λ₯Ό ν™˜μ›ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ˜ν•œ 였늘 μ΄μ‚¬νšŒκ°€ 보톡주 1μ£Όλ‹Ή 0.125λ‹¬λŸ¬μ˜ λΆ„κΈ° ν˜„κΈˆλ°°λ‹Ήμ„ μŠΉμΈν–ˆμŒμ„ λ°œν‘œν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŠ” 2026λ…„ 3μ›” 5일 κΈ°μ€€ μ£Όμ£Όλͺ…뢀에 λ“±μž¬λœ μ£Όμ£Όλ“€μ—κ²Œ 2026λ…„ 3μ›” 18일에 지급될 μ˜ˆμ •μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.

이제 2026 νšŒκ³„μ—°λ„ 3λΆ„κΈ° 전망에 λŒ€ν•΄ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ§€μΆœμ€ 32μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬μ— ν”ŒλŸ¬μŠ€/λ§ˆμ΄λ„ˆμŠ€ 1μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬λ₯Ό μ˜ˆμƒν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 쀑간값 κΈ°μ€€μœΌλ‘œ μ΄λŠ” μ „λ…„ 동기 λŒ€λΉ„ μ•½ 40%의 μ„±μž₯을 λ°˜μ˜ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. 맀좜총이읡λ₯ μ€ 47%μ—μ„œ 48% 사이가 될 κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ μ˜ˆμƒλ©λ‹ˆλ‹€.
We expect operating expenses in the range of $380 million to $390 million. Interest and other expenses are anticipated to be approximately $50 million. The tax rate is expected to be approximately 16%. As a result, we expect diluted earnings per share to be $2.30, plus/minus $0.15 based on a non-GAAP diluted share count of approximately 385 million shares. To wrap up, Western Digital achieved another strong quarter with performance ahead of expectations. Our guidance for the next quarter underscore continued favorable trends in our business alongside our disciplined approach to free cash flow, capital returns and long-term value creation for shareholders. With that, let's now begin the Q&A.μ˜μ—…λΉ„μš©μ€ 3μ–΅ 8천만 λ‹¬λŸ¬μ—μ„œ 3μ–΅ 9천만 λ‹¬λŸ¬ λ²”μœ„λ‘œ μ˜ˆμƒλ©λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이자 및 기타 λΉ„μš©μ€ μ•½ 5천만 λ‹¬λŸ¬λ‘œ μ˜ˆμƒλ©λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ„Έμœ¨μ€ μ•½ 16%둜 μ˜ˆμƒλ©λ‹ˆλ‹€. κ·Έ κ²°κ³Ό, 희석 μ£Όλ‹Ήμˆœμ΄μ΅μ€ μ•½ 3μ–΅ 8천 5백만 주의 λΉ„-GAAP 희석 μ£Όμ‹μˆ˜λ₯Ό κΈ°μ€€μœΌλ‘œ 2.30λ‹¬λŸ¬μ—μ„œ ν”ŒλŸ¬μŠ€/λ§ˆμ΄λ„ˆμŠ€ 0.15λ‹¬λŸ¬κ°€ 될 κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ μ˜ˆμƒλ©λ‹ˆλ‹€.

λ§ˆλ¬΄λ¦¬ν•˜μžλ©΄, Western Digital은 μ˜ˆμƒμ„ μƒνšŒν•˜λŠ” μ‹€μ μœΌλ‘œ 또 ν•œ 번의 κ°•λ ₯ν•œ λΆ„κΈ°λ₯Ό λ‹¬μ„±ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ‹€μŒ 뢄기에 λŒ€ν•œ 우리의 κ°€μ΄λ˜μŠ€λŠ” μž‰μ—¬ν˜„κΈˆνλ¦„, 자본 ν™˜μ› 및 μ£Όμ£Όλ₯Ό μœ„ν•œ μž₯기적 κ°€μΉ˜ μ°½μΆœμ— λŒ€ν•œ 우리의 규율 μžˆλŠ” μ ‘κ·Ό 방식과 ν•¨κ»˜ 우리 μ‚¬μ—…μ˜ μ§€μ†μ μœΌλ‘œ 우호적인 μΆ”μ„Έλ₯Ό κ°•μ‘°ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€.

그럼 이제 μ§ˆμ˜μ‘λ‹΅μ„ μ‹œμž‘ν•˜κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Ambrish? Ambrish Srivastava
Vice President of Investor Relations

Thank you, Kris. Operator, you can now open the line to questions, please. To ensure that we hear from as many analysts as possible, please ask one question at a time. After we respond we will give you an opportunity to ask one follow-up question. Operator?
# 싀적 λ°œν‘œ μ§ˆμ˜μ‘λ‹΅ μ„Έμ…˜ μ‹œμž‘

**μ•°λΈŒλ¦¬μ‹œ μŠ€λ¦¬λ°”μŠ€νƒ€λ°” (Ambrish Srivastava)**
투자자 관계 λ‹΄λ‹Ή 뢀사μž₯

κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€, 크리슀. μ˜€νΌλ ˆμ΄ν„°, 이제 μ§ˆλ¬Έμ„ 받을 수 μžˆλ„λ‘ νšŒμ„ μ„ μ—΄μ–΄μ£Όμ‹œκΈ° λ°”λžλ‹ˆλ‹€. κ°€λŠ₯ν•œ ν•œ λ§Žμ€ μ• λ„λ¦¬μŠ€νŠΈ λΆ„λ“€μ˜ μ˜κ²¬μ„ λ“£κΈ° μœ„ν•΄, ν•œ λ²ˆμ— ν•œ κ°€μ§€ 질문만 ν•΄μ£Όμ‹œκΈ° λ°”λžλ‹ˆλ‹€. λ‹΅λ³€ ν›„ μΆ”κ°€ 질문 ν•œ κ°€μ§€λ₯Ό 더 ν•˜μ‹€ 수 μžˆλŠ” 기회λ₯Ό λ“œλ¦¬κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ˜€νΌλ ˆμ΄ν„°?

πŸ“Œ μš”μ•½

# Western Digital Q2 FY2026 싀적 μš”μ•½

β€’ **싀적 호쑰 및 κ°€μ΄λ˜μŠ€ 상ν–₯**: 2λΆ„κΈ° 맀좜 30μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬(μ „λ…„λΉ„ +25%), EPS $2.13둜 κ°€μ΄λ˜μŠ€ 상단 초과 달성. 3λΆ„κΈ° 맀좜 κ°€μ΄λ˜μŠ€λŠ” 32μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬(쀑간값 κΈ°μ€€ μ „λ…„λΉ„ +40%)둜 κ°•λ ₯ν•œ μ„±μž₯μ„Έ 지속 전망. μ˜μ—…μ΄μ΅λ₯  33.8%, 맀좜총이읡λ₯  46.1%(μ „λ…„λΉ„ +770bp)둜 μˆ˜μ΅μ„± 크게 κ°œμ„ .

β€’ **AI 및 ν΄λΌμš°λ“œ μˆ˜μš” 주도 μ„±μž₯**: ν΄λΌμš°λ“œ 뢀문이 전체 맀좜의 89%(27μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬, μ „λ…„λΉ„ +28%)λ₯Ό μ°¨μ§€ν•˜λ©° λ‹ˆμ–΄λΌμΈ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒ μˆ˜μš” 급증. 215μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈ μΆœν•˜(μ „λ…„λΉ„ +22%), 특히 μ΅œμ‹  ePMR μ œν’ˆ(μ΅œλŒ€ 32TB) 350만 λŒ€ 이상 μΆœν•˜. μ£Όμš” 7개 고객사와 2026λ…„κΉŒμ§€, μƒμœ„ 3개 κ³ κ°μ‚¬μ™€λŠ” 2027~2028λ…„κΉŒμ§€ μž₯κΈ° 곡급계약 체결둜 κ°€μ‹œμ„± 확보.

β€’ **기술 ν˜μ‹  및 μ œν’ˆ λ‘œλ“œλ§΅ κ°•ν™”**: HAMR 및 μ°¨μ„ΈλŒ€ ePMR μ œν’ˆ 검증 μ§„ν–‰ 쀑이며, λ ˆμ΄μ € 기술 λ‚΄μž¬ν™”λ₯Ό μœ„ν•œ IP 및 인λ ₯ 인수 μ™„λ£Œ. UltraSMR 기술 ν™•λŒ€λ‘œ 고밀도 μŠ€ν† λ¦¬μ§€ μ†”λ£¨μ…˜ 제곡. 2μ›” 3일 Innovation Dayμ—μ„œ 기술 λ‘œλ“œλ§΅ 및 재무 λͺ¨λΈ μ—…


❓ Q&A

Original Translation
Operator: [Operator Instructions] Operator? Our first question today comes from Aaron Rakers with Wells Fargo.**Operator:** 200000

[운영자 μ•ˆλ‚΄] 였늘 첫 번째 μ§ˆλ¬Έμ€ Wells Fargo의 Aaron Rakersλ‹˜κ»˜μ„œ μ£Όμ…¨μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Aaron Rakers: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division And I will stick to one, Ambrish. On the gross margin line, the guidance that you're giving for 47% to 48%, I guess the back of the envelope math would suggest that you're maintaining what looks to be like a 70%, maybe 75% incremental margin flow-through. So, I guess, my question is, how do you think about the durability of that incremental margin? Or maybe taken another way, how do you think about the cost curve down on a per terabyte basis as we look out over the next, call it, several quarters?**Aaron Rakers:** 총 λ§ˆμ§„μœ¨ κ΄€λ ¨ν•΄μ„œ 47%μ—μ„œ 48%둜 κ°€μ΄λ˜μŠ€λ₯Ό μ£Όμ…¨λŠ”λ°μš”, λŒ€λž΅ 계산해보면 증뢄 λ§ˆμ§„μœ¨(incremental margin)이 70%, μ–΄μ©Œλ©΄ 75% μ •λ„λ‘œ μœ μ§€λ˜λŠ” 것 κ°™μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. κ·Έλž˜μ„œ μ§ˆλ¬Έλ“œλ¦¬κ³  싢은 것은, μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ 증뢄 λ§ˆμ§„μœ¨μ˜ 지속가λŠ₯성을 μ–΄λ–»κ²Œ λ³΄μ‹œλŠ”μ§€μš”? λ‹€λ₯΄κ²Œ ν‘œν˜„ν•˜λ©΄, ν–₯ν›„ λͺ‡ λΆ„κΈ°λ₯Ό 내닀봀을 λ•Œ ν…ŒλΌλ°”μ΄νŠΈλ‹Ή λΉ„μš© 곑선이 μ–΄λ–»κ²Œ ν•˜λ½ν•  κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ μ˜ˆμƒν•˜μ‹œλŠ”μ§€ κΆκΈˆν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Kris Sennesael: Executive VP & CFO Yes, Aaron, thanks for your question. And so, first of all, I'm really happy with what's going on with the gross margin. We delivered 46.1% gross margin, up 220 basis points quarter-over-quarter, up 770 basis points year-over-year. And we are guiding to 47%, 48%, so 47.5% at the midpoint, which is up 740 basis points on a year-over-year basis. And Aaron, I think your math is working. The incremental gross margin is on or about 75%, depending on how you look at it on a year-over-year basis or a quarter-over-quarter basis. So I've stated before, I'm very comfortable with an incremental gross margin higher than 50% and definitely 75% is higher than 50%. I mean in gross margins, there's two sides to the equation. On one hand, you have pricing environment. On the other hand, you have the cost environment. In pricing, I've talked about that before. We see a stable pricing environment with prices on a price per terabyte kind of flattish to slightly up. Actually, last quarter, it was up 2%, 3% on an ASP per terabyte basis. So that clearly demonstrate the value that we continue to deliver to our customers. And on the cost front, the teams continue to execute really well. We continue to upshift our customers to higher capacity drives, which gives us a cost benefit. And then there is great execution as well on driving down the cost in our manufacturing assets as well as throughout the supply chain. And when you look at it last quarter, the cost per terabyte was coming down on or about 10% on a year-over-year basis. And so when you put this all together, we continue to drive further gross margin expansion. And we believe in the next couple of quarters and beyond, we will continue to be able to do that.**Kris Sennesael:** λ„€, Aaron, 질문 κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. μš°μ„  맀좜총이읡λ₯ (gross margin) 좔이에 λŒ€ν•΄ 맀우 λ§Œμ‘±μŠ€λŸ½μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 46.1%의 맀좜총이읡λ₯ μ„ λ‹¬μ„±ν–ˆλŠ”λ°, μ΄λŠ” μ „λΆ„κΈ° λŒ€λΉ„ 220bp(λ² μ΄μ‹œμŠ€ν¬μΈνŠΈ) μƒμŠΉ, μ „λ…„ 동기 λŒ€λΉ„ 770bp μƒμŠΉν•œ μˆ˜μΉ˜μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. 그리고 47%μ—μ„œ 48%, 쀑간값 κΈ°μ€€ 47.5%둜 κ°€μ΄λ˜μŠ€λ₯Ό μ œμ‹œν–ˆλŠ”λ°, μ΄λŠ” μ „λ…„ λŒ€λΉ„ 740bp μƒμŠΉν•œ μˆ˜μ€€μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. Aaron, κ³„μ‚°ν•˜μ‹  게 λ§žμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 증뢄 맀좜총이읡λ₯ (incremental gross margin)은 μ „λ…„ λŒ€λΉ„λ“  μ „λΆ„κΈ° λŒ€λΉ„λ“  μ•½ 75% μˆ˜μ€€μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ œκ°€ 전에도 λ§μ”€λ“œλ Έλ“―μ΄, 50% μ΄μƒμ˜ 증뢄 맀좜총이읡λ₯ μ΄λ©΄ μΆ©λΆ„νžˆ 만쑱슀럽고, 75%λŠ” λ‹Ήμ—°νžˆ 50%보닀 높은 수치죠. 맀좜총이읡λ₯ μ—λŠ” 두 κ°€μ§€ 츑면이 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. ν•œνŽΈμœΌλ‘œλŠ” 가격 ν™˜κ²½μ΄ μžˆκ³ μš”. λ°˜λ©΄μ— λΉ„μš© ν™˜κ²½μ„ 보면, 가격 μΈ‘λ©΄μ—μ„œ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬μžλ©΄ ν…ŒλΌλ°”μ΄νŠΈλ‹Ή 가격이 λ³΄ν•©μ„Έμ—μ„œ μ†Œν­ μƒμŠΉν•˜λŠ” μ•ˆμ •μ μΈ 가격 ν™˜κ²½μ„ 보이고 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ‹€μ œλ‘œ μ§€λ‚œ λΆ„κΈ°μ—λŠ” ν…ŒλΌλ°”μ΄νŠΈλ‹Ή 평균 판맀 가격(ASP) κΈ°μ€€μœΌλ‘œ 2~3% μƒμŠΉν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŠ” μš°λ¦¬κ°€ κ³ κ°λ“€μ—κ²Œ μ§€μ†μ μœΌλ‘œ μ œκ³΅ν•˜κ³  μžˆλŠ” κ°€μΉ˜λ₯Ό λͺ…ν™•νžˆ λ³΄μ—¬μ£ΌλŠ” κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λΉ„μš© μΈ‘λ©΄μ—μ„œλŠ” νŒ€λ“€μ΄ 정말 ν›Œλ₯­ν•˜κ²Œ μ‹€ν–‰ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 고객듀을 더 높은 μš©λŸ‰μ˜ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ‘œ μ§€μ†μ μœΌλ‘œ μ „ν™˜μ‹œν‚€κ³  μžˆλŠ”λ°, 이λ₯Ό 톡해 λΉ„μš© 절감 효과λ₯Ό μ–»κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ˜ν•œ 제쑰 μžμ‚°κ³Ό 곡급망 μ „λ°˜μ— 걸쳐 λΉ„μš© μ ˆκ°μ„ μΆ”μ§„ν•˜λŠ” 데 μžˆμ–΄μ„œλ„ ν›Œλ₯­ν•œ μ‹€ν–‰λ ₯을 보이고 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ§€λ‚œ λΆ„κΈ°λ₯Ό 보면 ν…ŒλΌλ°”μ΄νŠΈλ‹Ή λΉ„μš©μ΄ μ „λ…„ λŒ€λΉ„ μ•½ 10% κ°μ†Œν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이 λͺ¨λ“  것을 쒅합해보면, μš°λ¦¬λŠ” κ³„μ†ν•΄μ„œ 맀좜총이읡λ₯ (gross margin) ν™•λŒ€λ₯Ό μΆ”μ§„ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 그리고 ν–₯ν›„ λͺ‡ 뢄기와 κ·Έ 이후에도 이λ₯Ό 지속할 수 μžˆμ„ κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ ν™•μ‹ ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Operator: The next question is from Erik Woodring with Morgan Stanley.**Operator:** λ‹€μŒ μ§ˆλ¬Έμ€ Morgan Stanley의 Erik Woodringμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Erik Woodring: Morgan Stanley, Research Division Irving, just given the tightness of the HDD market and kind of the significant inflation that NAND is going through right now, can you maybe just talk about maybe your patience in being able to sign purchase orders further into calendar '27 to extract better economics just relative to maybe how you were approaching signing POs last year? Is that making any difference in the economics you're able to extract? And then -- thank you.**Erik Woodring:** HDD μ‹œμž₯의 νƒ€μ΄νŠΈν•œ 상황과 ν˜„μž¬ NANDκ°€ κ²ͺκ³  μžˆλŠ” μƒλ‹Ήν•œ μΈν”Œλ ˆμ΄μ…˜μ„ κ³ λ €ν•  λ•Œ, 더 λ‚˜μ€ κ²½μ œμ„±μ„ ν™•λ³΄ν•˜κΈ° μœ„ν•΄ 2027λ…„κΉŒμ§€ ꡬ맀 μ£Όλ¬Έ μ„œλͺ…을 κΈ°λ‹€λ¦¬λŠ” 인내심에 λŒ€ν•΄ 말씀해 μ£Όμ‹€ 수 μžˆμ„κΉŒμš”? μž‘λ…„μ— ꡬ맀 주문에 μ ‘κ·Όν•˜μ…¨λ˜ 방식과 λΉ„κ΅ν•΄μ„œμš”. 이것이 ν™•λ³΄ν•˜μ‹€ 수 μžˆλŠ” κ²½μ œμ„±μ— μ–΄λ–€ 차이λ₯Ό λ§Œλ“€κ³  μžˆλ‚˜μš”? 그리고 κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€.
CEO & Director: Yes. Thanks, Erik. As we highlighted, we're pretty much sold out for calendar '26. We have firm POs with our top seven customers. And we've also established LTAs with two of them for calendar year '27 and one of them for calendar year '28. Obviously, these LTAs have a combination of volume of exabytes and price. And in relation to pricing, I think first, it's important to recognize that our customers actually have value that there's actually a structural shift in the value that we deliver to them, especially in the impact that we have to their total cost of ownership as the business moves more and more towards inference where monetization is happening. So, in this case, the pricing that we've provided there reflects the value that we're delivering to them. And so as Kris mentioned, we continue to see going forward, a stable pricing environment that gives us an opportunity to continue to extract more value as we deliver both better TCO value to our customers and to better support their supply-demand needs as well through higher capacity drives.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦° κ²ƒμ²˜λŸΌ μ €ν¬λŠ” 26년도 λ¬ΌλŸ‰μ΄ 거의 μ™„νŒλœ μƒνƒœμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μƒμœ„ 7개 κ³ κ°μ‚¬λ‘œλΆ€ν„° ν™•μ • 발주λ₯Ό λ°›μ•˜κ³ μš”. κ·Έ 쀑 2개 κ³ κ°μ‚¬μ™€λŠ” 27년도 μž₯기곡급계약(LTA)을, 1개 κ³ κ°μ‚¬μ™€λŠ” 28년도 μž₯기곡급계약을 μ²΄κ²°ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ μž₯κΈ°κ³΅κΈ‰κ³„μ•½μ—λŠ” μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈ(exabyte) λ‹¨μœ„μ˜ λ¬ΌλŸ‰κ³Ό 가격이 λͺ¨λ‘ ν¬ν•¨λ˜μ–΄ μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.

가격과 κ΄€λ ¨ν•΄μ„œλŠ”, λ¨Όμ € 고객사듀이 저희가 μ œκ³΅ν•˜λŠ” κ°€μΉ˜λ₯Ό μ‹€μ œλ‘œ μΈμ •ν•˜κ³  μžˆλ‹€λŠ” 점을 μ΄ν•΄ν•˜λŠ” 것이 μ€‘μš”ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. 특히 λΉ„μ¦ˆλ‹ˆμŠ€κ°€ μˆ˜μ΅ν™”κ°€ μ΄λ£¨μ–΄μ§€λŠ” μΆ”λ‘ (inference) μͺ½μœΌλ‘œ 점점 더 μ΄λ™ν•˜λ©΄μ„œ, 저희가 κ³ κ°μ‚¬μ˜ μ΄μ†Œμœ λΉ„μš©(TCO)에 λ―ΈμΉ˜λŠ” 영ν–₯ μΈ‘λ©΄μ—μ„œ μ œκ³΅ν•˜λŠ” κ°€μΉ˜μ— ꡬ쑰적인 λ³€ν™”κ°€ μžˆμ—ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ”°λΌμ„œ 저희가 μ œμ‹œν•œ 가격은 κ³ κ°μ‚¬μ—κ²Œ μ „λ‹¬ν•˜λŠ” μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ κ°€μΉ˜λ₯Ό λ°˜μ˜ν•œ κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. ν¬λ¦¬μŠ€κ°€ μ–ΈκΈ‰ν–ˆλ“―μ΄, μ•žμœΌλ‘œλ„ μ•ˆμ •μ μΈ 가격 ν™˜κ²½μ΄ 지속될 κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ 보고 있으며, μ΄λŠ” μš°λ¦¬μ—κ²Œ 더 λ§Žμ€ κ°€μΉ˜λ₯Ό μ°½μΆœν•  수 μžˆλŠ” 기회λ₯Ό μ œκ³΅ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. κ³ κ°λ“€μ—κ²Œ 더 λ‚˜μ€ TCO(μ΄μ†Œμœ λΉ„μš©) κ°€μΉ˜λ₯Ό μ œκ³΅ν•˜λŠ” λ™μ‹œμ—, κ³ μš©λŸ‰ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ₯Ό 톡해 κ³ κ°λ“€μ˜ 곡급-μˆ˜μš” λ‹ˆμ¦ˆλ₯Ό λ”μš± 효과적으둜 지원할 수 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Ambrish Srivastava: Vice President of Investor Relations Do you have a follow-up, Erik?**Ambrish Srivastava:** μΆ”κ°€ 질문 μžˆμœΌμ‹ κ°€μš”, Erik?
Erik Woodring: Morgan Stanley, Research Division Sure. Just very quickly, Kris, would just love to know how you're approaching the SanDisk share ownership. Do you still plan to monetize before, I think it's the February 21 deadline? And more importantly, how do you expect to leverage those proceeds?**Erik Woodring:** λ„€, κ°„λ‹¨νžˆ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μƒŒλ””μŠ€ν¬ μ§€λΆ„ λ³΄μœ μ— λŒ€ν•΄μ„œλŠ”, 2μ›” 21일 κΈ°ν•œ 전에 ν˜„κΈˆν™”ν•  κ³„νšμ„ μ—¬μ „νžˆ κ°€μ§€κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 더 μ€‘μš”ν•œ 것은 κ·Έ μˆ˜μ΅κΈˆμ„ μ–΄λ–»κ²Œ ν™œμš©ν•  κ²ƒμΈκ°€μΈλ°μš”, μ €ν¬λŠ” μ—¬λŸ¬ μ˜΅μ…˜μ„ κ²€ν† ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ£Όμ£Ό ν™˜μ›, μ „λž΅μ  투자, 그리고 재무 μœ μ—°μ„± κ°•ν™” 등을 ν¬ν•¨ν•΄μ„œ 말이죠. ꡬ체적인 κ³„νšμ€ μ‹œμž₯ 상황과 νšŒμ‚¬μ˜ μ „λž΅μ  μš°μ„ μˆœμœ„λ₯Ό κ³ λ €ν•΄μ„œ κ²°μ •ν•  μ˜ˆμ •μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Kris Sennesael: Executive VP & CFO Yes, Erik. As you probably know, we still have 7.5 million SanDisk shares, and it's our intention to monetize those shares before the one-year anniversary of the separation. likely in a similar transaction that we have done before, meaning it's a debt for equity swap. And so the proceeds will be used to further reduce the debt.**Kris Sennesael:**

λ„€, Erik. μ•„μ‹œλ‹€μ‹œν”Ό μ €ν¬λŠ” 아직 μƒŒλ””μŠ€ν¬ 주식 750만 μ£Όλ₯Ό λ³΄μœ ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 뢄사 1주년이 되기 전에 이 주식듀을 ν˜„κΈˆν™”ν•  κ³„νšμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ•„λ§ˆλ„ 이전에 μ§„ν–‰ν–ˆλ˜ 것과 μœ μ‚¬ν•œ 방식, 즉 뢀채-주식 μŠ€μ™‘(debt for equity swap) ν˜•νƒœλ‘œ 진행될 것 κ°™μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 그리고 κ·Έ μˆ˜μ΅κΈˆμ€ 뢀채λ₯Ό μΆ”κ°€λ‘œ κ°μΆ•ν•˜λŠ” 데 μ‚¬μš©λ  μ˜ˆμ •μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.

Operator: The next question is from C.J. Muse with Cantor Fitzgerald.**Operator:** λ‹€μŒ μ§ˆλ¬Έμ€ Cantor Fitzgerald의 C.J. Museλ‹˜κ»˜μ„œ μ£Όμ…¨μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Christopher Muse: Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Research Division I guess could you speak to how customer engagement and contracts are evolving in this very tight environment?**Christopher Muse:** ν˜„μž¬ 맀우 μ–΄λ €μš΄ ν™˜κ²½μ—μ„œ 고객 참여와 계약이 μ–΄λ–»κ²Œ μ§„ν–‰λ˜κ³  μžˆλŠ”μ§€ 말씀해 μ£Όμ‹œκ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆκΉŒ?
CEO & Director: Yes, C.J., this is Irving. Thanks for the question. One of the things that we've been very focused on over the last year is really develop a much more customer-centric approach. As we've shared in the past, we've really pivoted our organization to be centered around our big hyperscale customers with dedicated teams for each of them. That's really deepened the relationship that we have with them in terms of both technology road map development, in terms of getting better visibility of their demand requirements, and you see the result of that in the longer-term LTAs we've been able to structure with them. We're also looking forward to sharing with all of you the innovations that we are going to be delivering to support the AI needs -- workloads needs going forward at our Innovation Day next week. But definitely, the relationship has improved, as I highlighted, they definitely see the value and the structural -- that's resulting in the structural change that we're seeing in terms of pricing with them that's also resulting in the longer-term contracts that we have. Ultimately, what we want to do is to be able to ensure that it's a fair value exchange, deliver predictable pricing to them because one of the things that they are concerned about is the high volatility of some tiers of the storage space, right, and to ensure that there's sustainable value creation, both for them and for us along the way.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, C.J., μ €λŠ” Irvingμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. 질문 κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ§€λ‚œ 1λ…„κ°„ 저희가 μ§‘μ€‘ν•΄μ˜¨ 것 쀑 ν•˜λ‚˜λŠ” 훨씬 더 고객 쀑심적인 μ ‘κ·Ό 방식을 κ°œλ°œν•˜λŠ” κ²ƒμ΄μ—ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 과거에 λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦° 바와 같이, μ €ν¬λŠ” 쑰직을 λŒ€ν˜• ν•˜μ΄νΌμŠ€μΌ€μΌ 고객듀을 μ€‘μ‹¬μœΌλ‘œ μž¬νŽΈν–ˆμœΌλ©°, 각 κ³ κ°μ‚¬λ§ˆλ‹€ μ „λ‹΄ νŒ€μ„ λ°°μΉ˜ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이λ₯Ό 톡해 기술 λ‘œλ“œλ§΅ 개발 μΈ‘λ©΄μ—μ„œλ‚˜ μˆ˜μš” μš”κ΅¬μ‚¬ν•­μ— λŒ€ν•œ κ°€μ‹œμ„± 확보 μΈ‘λ©΄μ—μ„œ κ³ κ°λ“€κ³Όμ˜ 관계가 훨씬 더 κΉŠμ–΄μ‘Œκ³ , κ·Έ κ²°κ³Όλ₯Ό μž₯κΈ° 곡급계약(LTA)을 톡해 ν™•μΈν•˜μ‹€ 수 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ˜ν•œ λ‹€μŒ μ£Ό μ΄λ…Έλ² μ΄μ…˜ λ°μ΄μ—μ„œ ν–₯ν›„ AI μ›Œν¬λ‘œλ“œ λ‹ˆμ¦ˆλ₯Ό μ§€μ›ν•˜κΈ° μœ„ν•΄ μ œκ³΅ν•  ν˜μ‹  κΈ°μˆ λ“€μ„ μ—¬λŸ¬λΆ„κ³Ό κ³΅μœ ν•  수 있기λ₯Ό κΈ°λŒ€ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦° κ²ƒμ²˜λŸΌ κ΄€κ³„λŠ” ν™•μ‹€νžˆ κ°œμ„ λ˜μ—ˆκ³ , 고객듀도 κ·Έ κ°€μΉ˜λ₯Ό λͺ…ν™•νžˆ μΈμ‹ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŠ” 가격 μΈ‘λ©΄μ—μ„œ ꡬ쑰적 λ³€ν™”λ‘œ 이어지고 있으며, μž₯κΈ° 계약 μ²΄κ²°λ‘œλ„ μ—°κ²°λ˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. ꢁ극적으둜 저희가 μ›ν•˜λŠ” 것은 κ³΅μ •ν•œ κ°€μΉ˜ κ΅ν™˜μ„ 보μž₯ν•˜κ³ , κ³ κ°λ“€μ—κ²Œ 예츑 κ°€λŠ₯ν•œ 가격을 μ œκ³΅ν•˜λŠ” κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. 고객듀이 μš°λ €ν•˜λŠ” λΆ€λΆ„ 쀑 ν•˜λ‚˜κ°€ λ°”λ‘œ μŠ€ν† λ¦¬μ§€ κ³΅κ°„μ˜ νŠΉμ • ν‹°μ–΄(tier)μ—μ„œ λ°œμƒν•˜λŠ” 높은 가격 변동성이기 λ•Œλ¬Έμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. 그리고 이 κ³Όμ •μ—μ„œ 고객과 저희 λͺ¨λ‘μ—κ²Œ 지속 κ°€λŠ₯ν•œ κ°€μΉ˜ 창좜이 μ΄λ£¨μ–΄μ§ˆ 수 μžˆλ„λ‘ ν•˜λŠ” 것이 λͺ©ν‘œμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Operator: Do you have a follow-up, C.J.? Let's go to the next. Sorry, C.J., go ahead.**Operator:** μΆ”κ°€ 질문 μžˆμœΌμ‹ κ°€μš”, C.J.? λ‹€μŒμœΌλ‘œ λ„˜μ–΄κ°€κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ£„μ†‘ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€, C.J., λ§μ”€ν•˜μ„Έμš”.
Christopher Muse: Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Research Division Yes, sorry about the numbers. I guess just to follow on the SanDisk share comment. Can you talk about your plans thereafter? Are you going to focus more so on share repurchase or other?**Christopher Muse:** λ„€, 숫자 κ΄€λ ¨ν•΄μ„œλŠ” μ£„μ†‘ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. SanDisk μ§€λΆ„ κ΄€λ ¨ 말씀에 μ΄μ–΄μ„œ μ§ˆλ¬Έλ“œλ¦¬κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. κ·Έ 이후 κ³„νšμ— λŒ€ν•΄ 말씀해 μ£Όμ‹œκ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆκΉŒ? μžμ‚¬μ£Ό λ§€μž…μ— 더 μ§‘μ€‘ν•˜μ‹€ 건지, μ•„λ‹ˆλ©΄ λ‹€λ₯Έ λ°©μ•ˆμ„ κ³ λ €ν•˜κ³  κ³„μ‹ μ§€μš”?
Kris Sennesael: Executive VP & CFO Well, we are already focusing on share repurchases since we've announced the $2 billion share repurchase authorization in May of 2025. We already have repurchased $1.3 billion or we have used $1.3 billion of that program, repurchasing on or about 13 million shares, and there is no hesitation. We will continue to use that program.**Kris Sennesael:** μ €ν¬λŠ” 이미 μžμ‚¬μ£Ό λ§€μž…μ— μ§‘μ€‘ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 2025λ…„ 5월에 20μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬ 규λͺ¨μ˜ μžμ‚¬μ£Ό λ§€μž… ν”„λ‘œκ·Έλž¨μ„ λ°œν‘œν•œ 이후, ν˜„μž¬κΉŒμ§€ 13μ–΅ λ‹¬λŸ¬λ₯Ό μ§‘ν–‰ν–ˆμœΌλ©° μ•½ 1,300만 μ£Όλ₯Ό λ§€μž…ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ§μ„€μž„ 없이 이 ν”„λ‘œκ·Έλž¨μ„ 계속 ν™œμš©ν•΄ λ‚˜κ°ˆ κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Operator: The next question is from Wamsi Mohan with Bank of America.**Operator:** λ‹€μŒ μ§ˆλ¬Έμ€ Bank of America의 Wamsi Mohanλ‹˜κ»˜μ„œ μ£Όμ‹œκ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Aisling Grueninger: BofA Securities, Research Division This is Aisling Grueninger on for Wamsi. Congrats on the results, guys. Just one question for me. minds on the mix of UltraSMR. Just given your order book LTAs, how is this mix trend on UltraSMR trending? And how does this mix shift play a role kind of as a driver of gross margins moving forward?**Aisling Grueninger:** λ„€, 쒋은 질문 κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. 싀적 μΆ•ν•˜ν•΄μ£Όμ…”μ„œ κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. UltraSMR λ―ΉμŠ€μ— λŒ€ν•΄ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬μžλ©΄, ν˜„μž¬ μˆ˜μ£Όμž”κ³ μ™€ μž₯기곡급계약(LTA)을 보면 UltraSMR 비쀑이 계속 μ¦κ°€ν•˜λŠ” μΆ”μ„Έμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.

μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ 믹슀 λ³€ν™”κ°€ ν–₯ν›„ 맀좜총이읡λ₯ (gross margin)에 λ―ΈμΉ˜λŠ” 영ν–₯은 μƒλ‹Ήνžˆ κΈμ •μ μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. UltraSMR μ œν’ˆμ€ κΈ°μ‘΄ μ œν’ˆ λŒ€λΉ„ 더 높은 λ§ˆμ§„μ„ μ‹€ν˜„ν•  수 μžˆλŠ” ꡬ쑰이기 λ•Œλ¬Έμ—, μ œν’ˆ λ―ΉμŠ€μ—μ„œ UltraSMR 비쀑이 λŠ˜μ–΄λ‚ μˆ˜λ‘ 전체적인 μˆ˜μ΅μ„± κ°œμ„ μ— κΈ°μ—¬ν•˜κ²Œ λ©λ‹ˆλ‹€.

κ³ κ°μ‚¬λ“€μ˜ μˆ˜μš”λ„ UltraSMR μͺ½μœΌλ‘œ 계속 μ΄λ™ν•˜κ³  있고, 우리의 생산 λŠ₯λ ₯κ³Ό 곡급 κ³„νšλ„ 이에 맞좰 μ‘°μ •λ˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ”°λΌμ„œ μ•žμœΌλ‘œ λͺ‡ 뢄기에 걸쳐 μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ 긍정적인 믹슀 νš¨κ³Όκ°€ λ§ˆμ§„ κ°œμ„ μ˜ μ£Όμš” 동λ ₯ 쀑 ν•˜λ‚˜κ°€ 될 κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ μ˜ˆμƒν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
CEO & Director: Yes. That's a really great question, Aisling. Thank you for that. Well, last quarter, we crossed on the nearline portfolio, 50% mix on UltraSMR, and we actually see that increasing. As we've highlighted, one of the things that we're doing to better support the growth in demand from our customers is really to upshift them to higher capacity drives. A big part of that is the upshift to UltraSMR-based drives, and we see more and more customers adopting UltraSMR. We have our top three customers fully on board. with UltraSMR drives already today, and we have another two to three more that are moving into a process of adopting UltraSMR. So we are likely to see the UltraSMR mix of our total nearline exabyte base continue to increase going forward. That's actually very important for us because, one, we are better able to serve our customer demand needs. As you recall, UltraSMR gives a 20% capacity uplift over CMR and a 10% capacity uplift over the standard -- industry standard SMR. But equally important from a gross margin standpoint, UltraSMR is a software-based solution. So it's very accretive for us from a margin standpoint as well. So a higher shift higher mix of UltraSMR is definitely going to be beneficial both to our customers and to our ongoing profitability as well.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, 정말 쒋은 질문 κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€, Aisling. μ§€λ‚œ 뢄기에 λ‹ˆμ–΄λΌμΈ ν¬νŠΈν΄λ¦¬μ˜€μ—μ„œ UltraSMR 비쀑이 50%λ₯Ό λ„˜μ–΄μ„°κ³ , μ‹€μ œλ‘œ 이 비쀑은 계속 μ¦κ°€ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦° κ²ƒμ²˜λŸΌ, κ³ κ°λ“€μ˜ μˆ˜μš” 증가λ₯Ό 더 잘 μ§€μ›ν•˜κΈ° μœ„ν•΄ μš°λ¦¬κ°€ ν•˜κ³  μžˆλŠ” 일 쀑 ν•˜λ‚˜λŠ” 고객듀을 더 높은 μš©λŸ‰μ˜ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ‘œ μ „ν™˜μ‹œν‚€λŠ” κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이 쀑 큰 뢀뢄이 λ°”λ‘œ UltraSMR 기반 λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ‘œμ˜ μ „ν™˜μ΄λ©°, 점점 더 λ§Žμ€ 고객듀이 UltraSMR을 μ±„νƒν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. ν˜„μž¬ μƒμœ„ 3λŒ€ κ³ κ°μ‚¬λŠ” 이미 UltraSMR λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ₯Ό μ „λ©΄ λ„μž…ν–ˆκ³ , μΆ”κ°€λ‘œ 2~3개 고객사가 UltraSMR 채택 ν”„λ‘œμ„ΈμŠ€λ₯Ό μ§„ν–‰ μ€‘μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ”°λΌμ„œ 전체 λ‹ˆμ–΄λΌμΈ μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈ(exabyte) κΈ°μ€€μ—μ„œ UltraSMR 비쀑은 μ•žμœΌλ‘œλ„ 계속 증가할 κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ λ³΄μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŠ” μ €ν¬μ—κ²Œ 맀우 μ€‘μš”ν•œ λΆ€λΆ„μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. 첫째, 고객 μˆ˜μš”λ₯Ό λ”μš± 효과적으둜 μΆ©μ‘±ν•  수 있기 λ•Œλ¬Έμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ•„μ‹œλ‹€μ‹œν”Ό UltraSMR은 CMR λŒ€λΉ„ 20%의 μš©λŸ‰ μ¦λŒ€ 효과λ₯Ό μ œκ³΅ν•˜κ³ , 업계 ν‘œμ€€ SMR λŒ€λΉ„λ‘œλŠ” 10%의 μš©λŸ‰ μ¦λŒ€ 효과λ₯Ό μ œκ³΅ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. ν•˜μ§€λ§Œ 맀좜총이읡λ₯  κ΄€μ μ—μ„œ 보면 그에 λͺ»μ§€μ•Šκ²Œ μ€‘μš”ν•œ 점이 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. UltraSMR은 μ†Œν”„νŠΈμ›¨μ–΄ 기반 μ†”λ£¨μ…˜μ΄λΌλŠ” κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ”°λΌμ„œ λ§ˆμ§„ μΈ‘λ©΄μ—μ„œλ„ μƒλ‹Ήνžˆ 긍정적인 효과λ₯Ό κ°€μ Έμ˜΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. UltraSMR의 비쀑이 λ†’μ•„μ§€λŠ” 것은 고객과 μ €ν¬μ˜ 지속적인 μˆ˜μ΅μ„± λͺ¨λ‘μ— ν™•μ‹€νžˆ 도움이 될 κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Ambrish Srivastava: Vice President of Investor Relations And Aisling, one thing in Irving's prepared remarks, we mentioned the JBOD that we have launched, which also expands our UltraSMR customer reach beyond what we have been targeting so far. So thanks for your question. Maybe we go to the next question, please.**Ambrish Srivastava:** 뢀사μž₯의 λ°œμ–Έ 쀑 μ–ΈκΈ‰λœ JBOD μ œν’ˆ μΆœμ‹œλŠ” UltraSMR 고객측을 κΈ°μ‘΄ νƒ€κ²Ÿμ„ λ„˜μ–΄ λ”μš± ν™•λŒ€ν•˜λŠ” 계기가 될 κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. 질문 κ°μ‚¬λ“œλ¦½λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ‹€μŒ 질문으둜 λ„˜μ–΄κ°€κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Operator: The next question is from Asiya Merchant with Citigroup.**Operator:** λ‹€μŒ μ§ˆλ¬Έμ€ μ”¨ν‹°κ·Έλ£Ήμ˜ μ•„μ‹œμ•Ό λ¨Έμ²œνŠΈλ‹˜κ»˜μ„œ μ£Όμ‹œκ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Michael Cadiz: Citigroup Inc., Research Division It's Mike Cadiz at Citi for Asiya today. So I have a question and perhaps a follow-up. So the first is, could you provide any color or additional color on yields and reliability? I know that is -- those are a couple of points that Irving has brought up over the past couple of quarters in relation to the multiple rollouts. Is there any implication to cost per bit declines that we can think of?**Michael Cadiz:** μ‹œν‹°μ˜ Asiyaλ₯Ό λŒ€μ‹ ν•΄μ„œ Mike Cadizμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. 질문 ν•˜λ‚˜μ™€ μΆ”κ°€ 질문이 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ¨Όμ €, 수율(yield)κ³Ό μ‹ λ’°μ„±(reliability)에 λŒ€ν•΄ μ’€ 더 μžμ„Ένžˆ 말씀해 μ£Όμ‹€ 수 μžˆμ„κΉŒμš”? μ§€λ‚œ λͺ‡ λΆ„κΈ° λ™μ•ˆ Irvingκ»˜μ„œ μ—¬λŸ¬ μ œν’ˆ μΆœμ‹œμ™€ κ΄€λ ¨ν•΄μ„œ μ–ΈκΈ‰ν•˜μ…¨λ˜ λΆ€λΆ„λ“€μΈλ°μš”. λΉ„νŠΈλ‹Ή λΉ„μš©(cost per bit) κ°μ†Œμ— μ–΄λ–€ 영ν–₯이 μžˆμ„μ§€ 생각해볼 수 μžˆμ„κΉŒμš”?
CEO & Director: Yes. Thanks for the question, Mike. So our yields on our ePMR products continue to be very, very they continue to be yielding very well in the low 90s percentage yield range. And obviously, from a reliability and quality standpoint, we received very good feedback from our customers. The fact that we've been able to, last quarter, deliver over 3.5 million units of our flagship ePMR drives is a testimony to the confidence that they have in terms of the reliability and the quality. In terms of the cost related to the cost down, obviously, as we get yields up, cost continues to decline as the UltraSMR mix goes up within those new products as well, that's also going to be a driver of cost down as well.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, 질문 κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. 저희 ePMR μ œν’ˆμ˜ μˆ˜μœ¨μ€ κ³„μ†ν•΄μ„œ 맀우 μš°μˆ˜ν•œ μˆ˜μ€€μ„ μœ μ§€ν•˜κ³  있으며, 90% μ΄ˆλ°˜λŒ€μ˜ 수율 λ²”μœ„μ—μ„œ μ•ˆμ •μ μœΌλ‘œ μƒμ‚°λ˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ‹ λ’°μ„±κ³Ό ν’ˆμ§ˆ μΈ‘λ©΄μ—μ„œλ„ κ³ κ°λ“€λ‘œλΆ€ν„° 맀우 긍정적인 ν”Όλ“œλ°±μ„ λ°›κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ§€λ‚œ 뢄기에 μ£Όλ ₯ ePMR λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ₯Ό 350만 λŒ€ 이상 μΆœν•˜ν•  수 μžˆμ—ˆλ‹€λŠ” 사싀 μžμ²΄κ°€ 고객듀이 저희 μ œν’ˆμ˜ μ‹ λ’°μ„±κ³Ό ν’ˆμ§ˆμ— λŒ€ν•΄ κ°–κ³  μžˆλŠ” 확신을 λ³΄μ—¬μ£ΌλŠ” μ¦κ±°μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.

원가 절감과 κ΄€λ ¨ν•΄μ„œ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬λ©΄, 수율이 κ°œμ„ λ¨μ— 따라 μ›κ°€λŠ” μ§€μ†μ μœΌλ‘œ κ°μ†Œν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ˜ν•œ μ‹ μ œν’ˆ λ‚΄μ—μ„œ UltraSMR의 비쀑이 μ¦κ°€ν•˜λŠ” 것도 원가 절감의 또 λ‹€λ₯Έ 동λ ₯이 될 κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Ambrish Srivastava: Vice President of Investor Relations Okay. Do you have a follow-up?**Ambrish Srivastava:** μΆ”κ°€ 질문 μžˆμœΌμ‹ κ°€μš”?
Michael Cadiz: Citigroup Inc., Research Division I did. So can you talk more about any progress or the progress from your Rochester test and integration site how you're leveraging perhaps those efforts to accelerate maybe in the existing customer transitions?**Michael Cadiz:** λ‘œμ²΄μŠ€ν„° ν…ŒμŠ€νŠΈ 및 톡합 μ‚¬μ΄νŠΈμ—μ„œμ˜ μ§„μ „ 상황에 λŒ€ν•΄ μ’€ 더 말씀해 μ£Όμ‹œκ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆκΉŒ? 그리고 μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ λ…Έλ ₯듀을 ν™œμš©ν•˜μ—¬ κΈ°μ‘΄ κ³ κ°λ“€μ˜ μ „ν™˜μ„ κ°€μ†ν™”ν•˜λŠ” λ°©μ•ˆμ— λŒ€ν•΄μ„œλ„ μ„€λͺ… λΆ€νƒλ“œλ¦½λ‹ˆλ‹€.
CEO & Director: Yes. One update that we shared in the prepared script is actually we -- last quarter, we indicated that we would start HAMR qualification. We pulled it forward to the first half of calendar '26. We actually have started qualification of those drives already this month for HAMR. On top of that, we've also started qualification for our next-generation ePMR drives as well. And obviously, our Rochester SIT Lab plays a critical role in ensuring that we have a very smooth, quick qualification. And equally important, as they move into production environments that they deliver the same reliability and quality. that our customers have been used to our previous generations of products. Again, on this one, we look forward to sharing a lot more on the 3rd of February in our Innovation Day, we'll be highlighting the updated road maps for both our ePMR and HAMR portfolio. And so we look forward to sharing more of that exciting news next week.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, μ€€λΉ„λœ λ°œν‘œμ—μ„œ κ³΅μœ λ“œλ¦° μ—…λ°μ΄νŠΈ 쀑 ν•˜λ‚˜λŠ” μ‹€μ œλ‘œ μ§€λ‚œ 뢄기에 HAMR 검증을 μ‹œμž‘ν•  것이라고 λ§μ”€λ“œλ Έμ—ˆλŠ”λ°, 이λ₯Ό 26λ…„ μƒλ°˜κΈ°λ‘œ μ•žλ‹Ήκ²Όλ‹€λŠ” κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ‹€μ œλ‘œ 이번 달에 이미 HAMR λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒμ— λŒ€ν•œ 검증을 μ‹œμž‘ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 여기에 더해, μ°¨μ„ΈλŒ€ ePMR λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒμ— λŒ€ν•œ 검증도 ν•¨κ»˜ μ‹œμž‘ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ‹Ήμ—°νžˆ λ‘œμ²΄μŠ€ν„° SIT 랩이 맀우 μ›ν™œν•˜κ³  μ‹ μ†ν•œ 검증을 보μž₯ν•˜λŠ” 데 μ€‘μš”ν•œ 역할을 ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 그리고 λ˜‘κ°™μ΄ μ€‘μš”ν•œ 것은, 이듀이 생산 ν™˜κ²½μœΌλ‘œ μ „ν™˜λ  λ•Œ 고객듀이 이전 μ„ΈλŒ€ μ œν’ˆμ—μ„œ κ²½ν—˜ν–ˆλ˜ 것과 λ™μΌν•œ μˆ˜μ€€μ˜ μ‹ λ’°μ„±κ³Ό ν’ˆμ§ˆμ„ μ œκ³΅ν•œλ‹€λŠ” μ μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이 뢀뢄에 λŒ€ν•΄μ„œλŠ” 2μ›” 3일 ν˜μ‹ μ˜ λ‚ (Innovation Day) ν–‰μ‚¬μ—μ„œ 훨씬 더 λ§Žμ€ λ‚΄μš©μ„ κ³΅μœ ν•  μ˜ˆμ •μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ‹Ήμ‚¬μ˜ ePMRκ³Ό HAMR 포트폴리였 λͺ¨λ‘μ— λŒ€ν•œ μ—…λ°μ΄νŠΈλœ λ‘œλ“œλ§΅μ„ μ€‘μ μ μœΌλ‘œ μ†Œκ°œν•  κ³„νšμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ‹€μŒ 주에 μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ ν₯미둜운 μ†Œμ‹λ“€μ„ 더 μžμ„Ένžˆ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦΄ 수 있기λ₯Ό κΈ°λŒ€ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Operator: The next question is from Amit Daryanani with Evercore.**Operator:** λ‹€μŒ μ§ˆλ¬Έμ€ μ—λ²„μ½”μ–΄μ˜ μ•„λ―ΈνŠΈ λ‹€λ₯΄μ•Όλ‚˜λ‹ˆλ‹˜κ»˜μ„œ μ£Όμ‹œκ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Hannah Liu: Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division This is Hannah on for Amit. I was just wondering, are there any notable investments related to HAMR that are currently flowing through COGS or operating expenses? And should we expect those costs to roll off or normalize as HAMR begins to ramp?**Hannah Liu:** 에버코어 ISI κΈ°κ΄€ 주식 λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ•„λ―ΈνŠΈ λŒ€μ‹  ν•œλ‚˜κ°€ μ§ˆλ¬Έλ“œλ¦½λ‹ˆλ‹€. ν˜„μž¬ HAMR κ΄€λ ¨ν•˜μ—¬ λ§€μΆœμ›κ°€λ‚˜ μ˜μ—…λΉ„μš©μ— 반영되고 μžˆλŠ” μ£Όλͺ©ν•  λ§Œν•œ 투자 ν•­λͺ©μ΄ μžˆλŠ”μ§€ κΆκΈˆν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. 그리고 HAMRκ°€ 본격적으둜 λž¨ν”„μ—…λ˜κΈ° μ‹œμž‘ν•˜λ©΄ μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ λΉ„μš©λ“€μ΄ κ°μ†Œν•˜κ±°λ‚˜ 정상화될 κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ μ˜ˆμƒν•˜μ‹œλ‚˜μš”?
Kris Sennesael: Executive VP & CFO Yes, we have been working on HAMR for the last 10 years, and the engineering teams are making good progress. So there is no change there. We will continue to work on those programs, and we will, in general, continue to innovate and make performance improvements to our programs, continue to drive higher capacity drives and those investments will continue. As it relates to the gross margin, we haven't started the HAMR ramp yet, but we are confident once we start ramping HAMR that will be neutral to accretive to our gross margins.**Kris Sennesael:** λ„€, μ €ν¬λŠ” μ§€λ‚œ 10λ…„κ°„ HAMR 기술 κ°œλ°œμ„ μ§„ν–‰ν•΄μ™”κ³ , μ—”μ§€λ‹ˆμ–΄λ§ νŒ€λ“€μ΄ 쒋은 진전을 보이고 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. κ·Έλž˜μ„œ κ·Έ λΆ€λΆ„μ—λŠ” λ³€ν™”κ°€ μ—†μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ €ν¬λŠ” μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ ν”„λ‘œκ·Έλž¨λ“€μ„ 계속 μΆ”μ§„ν•  것이며, μ „λ°˜μ μœΌλ‘œ ν˜μ‹ μ„ μ§€μ†ν•˜κ³  ν”„λ‘œκ·Έλž¨μ˜ μ„±λŠ₯ κ°œμ„ μ„ μ΄μ–΄κ°€λ©΄μ„œ 더 높은 μš©λŸ‰μ˜ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ₯Ό κ΅¬ν˜„ν•˜λŠ” 데 투자λ₯Ό 계속할 κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.

맀좜총이읡λ₯ (gross margin)κ³Ό κ΄€λ ¨ν•΄μ„œλŠ”, 아직 HAMR 양산을 μ‹œμž‘ν•˜μ§€λŠ” μ•Šμ•˜μ§€λ§Œ, HAMR 양산을 μ‹œμž‘ν•˜λ©΄ 맀좜총이읡λ₯ μ— μ€‘λ¦½μ μ΄κ±°λ‚˜ 긍정적인 영ν–₯을 λ―ΈμΉ  κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ ν™•μ‹ ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
CEO & Director: Yes. Maybe just to add on to what Kris said, even with the HAMR ramp that we anticipate will happen at the start of calendar year '27, our CapEx as a percentage of revenue on a run rate basis will still be within the 4% to 6% range.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, ν¬λ¦¬μŠ€κ°€ λ§ν•œ λ‚΄μš©μ— λ§λΆ™μ΄μžλ©΄, 2027λ…„ μ΄ˆμ— μ˜ˆμƒλ˜λŠ” HAMR λž¨ν”„μ—…(ramp-up)을 κ°μ•ˆν•˜λ”λΌλ„, 런레이트(run rate) κΈ°μ€€μœΌλ‘œ 맀좜 λŒ€λΉ„ μžλ³Έμ§€μΆœ(CapEx) λΉ„μœ¨μ€ μ—¬μ „νžˆ 4%μ—μ„œ 6% λ²”μœ„ 내에 λ¨Έλ¬Ό κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Ambrish Srivastava: Vice President of Investor Relations Did you have a follow-up?**Ambrish Srivastava:** μΆ”κ°€ 질문 μžˆμœΌμ‹ κ°€μš”?
Hannah Liu: Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division**Hannah Liu:** 에버코어 ISI κΈ°κ΄€νˆ¬μžμž 주식 λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έ
Operator: The next question is from Karl Ackerman with BNP Paribas.**Operator:** λ‹€μŒ μ§ˆλ¬Έμ€ BNP νŒŒλ¦¬λ°”μ˜ Karl Ackermanλ‹˜κ»˜μ„œ μ£Όμ‹­λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Karl Ackerman: BNP Paribas, Research Division Rose mid-teens in 2025 and is projected to advance double digits again in 2026 as agentic AI is supposed to drive a cyclical recovery in front-end conventional servers. But in your case, because hard drive units are highly correlated to demand for conventional servers, and you're also seeing a content uplift from these new drives. Do you believe Agentic AI demand can enable you to exceed your long-term exabyte growth CAGR of low 20s?**Karl Ackerman:** BNP νŒŒλ¦¬λ°” λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έμ—μ„œλŠ” 2025년에 10%λŒ€ μ€‘λ°˜ μ„±μž₯ν•˜κ³ , 2026λ…„μ—λŠ” 에이전틱 AIκ°€ ν”„λ‘ νŠΈμ—”λ“œ κΈ°μ‘΄ μ„œλ²„μ˜ μˆœν™˜μ  νšŒλ³΅μ„ κ²¬μΈν•˜λ©΄μ„œ λ‹€μ‹œ 두 자릿수 μ„±μž₯을 ν•  κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ μ „λ§ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. κ·€μ‚¬μ˜ 경우, ν•˜λ“œ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒ μΆœν•˜λŸ‰μ΄ κΈ°μ‘΄ μ„œλ²„ μˆ˜μš”μ™€ 높은 상관관계λ₯Ό 보이고 있고, μ‹ κ·œ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ‘œ μΈν•œ μš©λŸ‰ 증가도 λ‚˜νƒ€λ‚˜κ³  μžˆλŠ”λ°μš”. 에이전틱 AI μˆ˜μš”κ°€ κ·€μ‚¬μ˜ μž₯κΈ° μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈ μ„±μž₯λ₯  λͺ©ν‘œμΈ 20%λŒ€ 초반 CAGR을 μ΄ˆκ³Όν•  수 있게 λ§Œλ“€ κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ λ³΄μ‹­λ‹ˆκΉŒ?
CEO & Director: Yes. Thanks for the question, Karl. Well, I think we've definitely seen exabyte growth over the last few quarters in the low 20s, as you've highlighted. Actually, we see as the AI value changes from model training to inference, more data is going to get created as a result in order to enable the inference delivery, more data needs to get stored as a result of that data getting generated as well. And if you look at the economics of being able to deliver inference at the right cost structure to drive mass scale adoption, again, a lot of that data that's getting generated and require storage will be delivered -- will be stored on hard drives as they are, as we've highlighted in the past, where hyperscalers really are masters of managing the economics and moving data across the different tiers of SSDs HDDs and tape as well. So from our perspective and the conversations that we've been having with our customers, inference is definitely going to drive a significant amount of data storage requirement, and that's really positive for HDDs going forward.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, 질문 κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ§μ”€ν•˜μ‹  λŒ€λ‘œ μ§€λ‚œ λͺ‡ λΆ„κΈ° λ™μ•ˆ μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈ(exabyte) μ„±μž₯λ₯ μ΄ 20% μ΄ˆλ°˜λŒ€λ₯Ό κΈ°λ‘ν•œ 것이 λ§žμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ‹€μ œλ‘œ AI κ°€μΉ˜κ°€ λͺ¨λΈ ν•™μŠ΅(model training)μ—μ„œ μΆ”λ‘ (inference)으둜 μ „ν™˜λ˜λ©΄μ„œ, μΆ”λ‘  μ„œλΉ„μŠ€λ₯Ό μ œκ³΅ν•˜κΈ° μœ„ν•΄ 더 λ§Žμ€ 데이터가 생성될 κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ 보고 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 그리고 μ΄λ ‡κ²Œ μƒμ„±λœ 데이터λ₯Ό μ €μž₯ν•˜κΈ° μœ„ν•΄μ„œλ„ 더 λ§Žμ€ 데이터 μ €μž₯이 ν•„μš”ν•˜κ²Œ 될 κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. 그리고 λŒ€κ·œλͺ¨ λ„μž…μ„ μ΄‰μ§„ν•˜κΈ° μœ„ν•΄ μ μ ˆν•œ λΉ„μš© ꡬ쑰둜 좔둠을 μ œκ³΅ν•  수 μžˆλŠ” κ²½μ œμ„±μ„ μ‚΄νŽ΄λ³΄λ©΄, μƒμ„±λ˜κ³  μ €μž₯이 ν•„μš”ν•œ λ°μ΄ν„°μ˜ 상당 뢀뢄이 ν•˜λ“œ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒμ— μ €μž₯될 κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. 과거에도 κ°•μ‘°ν–ˆλ“―μ΄, ν•˜μ΄νΌμŠ€μΌ€μΌλŸ¬λ“€μ€ SSD, HDD, ν…Œμ΄ν”„ λ“± λ‹€μ–‘ν•œ μŠ€ν† λ¦¬μ§€ 계측 κ°„ 데이터 이동과 κ²½μ œμ„± 관리에 μžˆμ–΄ μ§„μ •ν•œ μ „λ¬Έκ°€λ“€μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ”°λΌμ„œ 저희 관점과 κ³ κ°λ“€κ³Όμ˜ λŒ€ν™”λ₯Ό 쒅합해보면, 좔둠은 λΆ„λͺ…νžˆ μƒλ‹Ήν•œ 규λͺ¨μ˜ 데이터 μŠ€ν† λ¦¬μ§€ μˆ˜μš”λ₯Ό μ°½μΆœν•  것이며, μ΄λŠ” ν–₯ν›„ HDD에 맀우 긍정적인 μš”μΈμ΄ 될 κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Ambrish Srivastava: Vice President of Investor Relations Do you have a follow-up, Karl?**Ambrish Srivastava:** μΆ”κ°€ 질문 μžˆμœΌμ‹ κ°€μš”, Karl?
Karl Ackerman: BNP Paribas, Research Division If I may, Ambrish, just going back to HAMR, it sounds like you've pulled in the progression of HAMR, at least your first primary customer. Can talk about the interest beyond your initial customer given the robust hyperscaler demand for exabyte capacity?**Karl Ackerman:**

λ„€, λ§μ”€ν•˜μ‹  λŒ€λ‘œ HAMR 기술의 μ§„ν–‰ 속도가 빨라진 것이 λ§žμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 첫 번째 μ£Όμš” κ³ κ°μ‚¬μ™€μ˜ 일정이 μ•žλ‹Ήκ²¨μ‘ŒμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 초기 고객사λ₯Ό λ„˜μ–΄μ„œλŠ” 관심도에 λŒ€ν•΄ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬μžλ©΄, μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈ(exabyte) μš©λŸ‰μ— λŒ€ν•œ ν•˜μ΄νΌμŠ€μΌ€μΌλŸ¬(hyperscaler)λ“€μ˜ κ°•λ ₯ν•œ μˆ˜μš”λ₯Ό κ³ λ €ν•  λ•Œ μƒλ‹Ήνžˆ κΈμ •μ μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.

ν˜„μž¬ μ—¬λŸ¬ ν•˜μ΄νΌμŠ€μΌ€μΌλŸ¬λ“€λ‘œλΆ€ν„° μƒλ‹Ήν•œ 관심을 λ°›κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이듀은 데이터 μ„Όν„° μš©λŸ‰ ν™•μž₯을 μœ„ν•΄ 더 높은 λ°€λ„μ˜ μŠ€ν† λ¦¬μ§€ μ†”λ£¨μ…˜μ„ ν•„μš”λ‘œ ν•˜κ³  있으며, HAMR 기술이 μ œκ³΅ν•˜λŠ” μš©λŸ‰ μ¦λŒ€κ°€ κ·Έλ“€μ˜ μš”κ΅¬μ‚¬ν•­κ³Ό μ •ν™•νžˆ λ§žμ•„λ–¨μ–΄μ§‘λ‹ˆλ‹€. 첫 번째 고객사 이후 μΆ”κ°€ κ³ κ°μ‚¬λ“€κ³Όμ˜ λ…Όμ˜λ„ ν™œλ°œνžˆ μ§„ν–‰ 쀑이며, νŒŒμ΄ν”„λΌμΈμ€ 맀우 κ²¬κ³ ν•œ μƒνƒœμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.

CEO & Director: Yes. Thanks for the question, Karl. As we've mentioned, we are starting qualification in the first half of this year. We've already started that with one hyperscale customer already this month, and we will be initiating another one -- initiating qualification with another hyperscale customer relatively soon.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, 질문 κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦° 바와 같이 μ˜¬ν•΄ μƒλ°˜κΈ°μ— 인증을 μ‹œμž‘ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이미 이번 달에 ν•œ ν•˜μ΄νΌμŠ€μΌ€μΌ 고객사와 인증을 μ‹œμž‘ν–ˆκ³ , κ³§ λ‹€λ₯Έ ν•˜μ΄νΌμŠ€μΌ€μΌ 고객사와도 인증을 μ‹œμž‘ν•  μ˜ˆμ •μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Operator: The next question is from Thomas O'Malley with Barclays.**Operator:** λ‹€μŒ μ§ˆλ¬Έμ€ Barclays의 Thomas O'Malleyλ‹˜κ»˜μ„œ μ£Όμ‹œκ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Thomas O'Malley: Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division Just a follow-up on some of the comments from the preamble about acquiring some IP, I think, on the laser side. Could you maybe give us a little more detail on that, maybe the size of the purchase? And then what in particular you needed to add on the laser side that you felt like you need to go out and do a deal?**Thomas O'Malley:** μ„œλ¬Έμ—μ„œ μ–ΈκΈ‰ν•˜μ‹  λ ˆμ΄μ € μͺ½ IP 인수 건에 λŒ€ν•΄ 후속 질문 λ“œλ¦¬κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ’€ 더 μžμ„Έν•œ λ‚΄μš©, 특히 인수 규λͺ¨μ— λŒ€ν•΄ 말씀해 μ£Όμ‹€ 수 μžˆμ„κΉŒμš”? 그리고 λ ˆμ΄μ € λΆ€λ¬Έμ—μ„œ ꡬ체적으둜 μ–΄λ–€ 뢀뢄이 ν•„μš”ν•΄μ„œ μ™ΈλΆ€ 거래λ₯Ό μΆ”μ§„ν•˜κ²Œ λ˜μ…¨λŠ”μ§€ κΆκΈˆν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€.
CEO & Director: Yes. Thanks for the question. Well, unfortunately, the terms and conditions of the deal are confidential. So we can't really share too much about that. But we are excited about acquiring this technology. We'll share again more of that next week at our Innovation Day. But what I will say is it's definitely going to give us the benefit of taking much less real estate in the drive, right? And that will actually help with manufacturability in terms of reliability. And we also see that with this innovative technology, energy requirements to support the lasers will also be reduced compared to the conventional laser diodes. So we're quite excited about the -- both the IP and the capabilities that we've acquired.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, 질문 κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ•ˆνƒ€κΉκ²Œλ„ 거래 쑰건은 κΈ°λ°€ 사항이라 μžμ„Έν•œ λ‚΄μš©μ„ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬κΈ° μ–΄λ ΅μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. ν•˜μ§€λ§Œ 이 κΈ°μˆ μ„ μΈμˆ˜ν•˜κ²Œ λ˜μ–΄ 맀우 κΈ°λŒ€ν•˜κ³  있으며, λ‹€μŒ μ£Ό μ΄λ…Έλ² μ΄μ…˜ λ°μ΄μ—μ„œ 더 μžμ„Έν•œ λ‚΄μš©μ„ κ³΅μœ ν•  μ˜ˆμ •μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.

λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦΄ 수 μžˆλŠ” 것은, 이 기술이 λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒ λ‚΄ 곡간을 훨씬 적게 μ°¨μ§€ν•˜κ²Œ ν•΄μ€€λ‹€λŠ” μ μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŠ” μ‹€μ œλ‘œ μ‹ λ’°μ„± μΈ‘λ©΄μ—μ„œ 제쑰 κ°€λŠ₯성을 ν–₯μƒμ‹œν‚€λŠ” 데 도움이 될 κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ˜ν•œ 이 ν˜μ‹ μ μΈ κΈ°μˆ μ„ 톡해 κΈ°μ‘΄ λ ˆμ΄μ € λ‹€μ΄μ˜€λ“œμ— λΉ„ν•΄ λ ˆμ΄μ €λ₯Ό μ§€μ›ν•˜λŠ” 데 ν•„μš”ν•œ μ—λ„ˆμ§€ μš”κ΅¬λŸ‰λ„ κ°μ†Œν•  κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ 보고 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ”°λΌμ„œ μš°λ¦¬κ°€ ν™•λ³΄ν•œ μ§€μ μž¬μ‚°κΆŒ(IP)κ³Ό μ—­λŸ‰ λͺ¨λ‘μ— λŒ€ν•΄ μƒλ‹Ήνžˆ κΈ°λŒ€ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Ambrish Srivastava: Vice President of Investor Relations Do you have a follow-up, Tom?**Ambrish Srivastava:** μΆ”κ°€ 질문 μžˆμœΌμ‹ κ°€μš”, Tom?
Thomas O'Malley: Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division I do. With NVIDIA's addition of the KV cache offload and the NAND attach that's thought to go with that, I was curious if you guys have been engaging with any large hyperscalers or any large procurers of storage for any kind of solution that would maybe attach on to custom silicon deployment, say, something that brings the hard drive a little bit closer to some of the accelerators, if there's a road map for those or if you're engaging in that way with any customers?**Thomas O'Malley:** λ„€, κ·Έλ ‡μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. NVIDIAκ°€ KV μΊμ‹œ μ˜€ν”„λ‘œλ“œ(KV cache offload)λ₯Ό μΆ”κ°€ν•˜κ³  이와 ν•¨κ»˜ NAND 연결이 μ˜ˆμƒλ˜λŠ” μƒν™©μ—μ„œ, 귀사가 λŒ€ν˜• ν•˜μ΄νΌμŠ€μΌ€μΌλŸ¬λ‚˜ λŒ€κ·œλͺ¨ μŠ€ν† λ¦¬μ§€ κ΅¬λ§€μžλ“€κ³Ό μ–΄λ–€ μ†”λ£¨μ…˜μ— λŒ€ν•΄ λ…Όμ˜ν•˜κ³  μžˆλŠ”μ§€ κΆκΈˆν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. 예λ₯Ό λ“€μ–΄, μ»€μŠ€ν…€ μ‹€λ¦¬μ½˜ λ°°μΉ˜μ— 연결될 수 μžˆλŠ” μ†”λ£¨μ…˜μ΄λ‚˜, ν•˜λ“œ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ₯Ό μ•‘μ…€λŸ¬λ ˆμ΄ν„°μ— μ’€ 더 κ°€κΉκ²Œ λ°°μΉ˜ν•˜λŠ” λ°©μ•ˆ 같은 것 λ§μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ λ‘œλ“œλ§΅μ΄ μžˆλŠ”μ§€, λ˜λŠ” 고객듀과 그런 λ°©μ‹μœΌλ‘œ ν˜‘λ ₯ν•˜κ³  계신지 μ•Œκ³  μ‹ΆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
CEO & Director: Yes. No, thanks for the question. Again, I think the initiative that NVIDIA has been driving is really to help accelerate inference capability. And as I've highlighted, as a result of that, the velocity and the volume of data is going to get generated much more rapidly. And the benefit from us, obviously, will be able to require -- it will require a lot more storage, which obviously HDDs are well suited with the superior economics. We are working on, as we've highlighted in the prepared remarks on interesting innovations to improve both our bandwidth and throughput of our drives. Again, something we are looking forward to be sharing with all of you next week as well.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, 질문 κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ‹€μ‹œ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬λ©΄, NVIDIAκ°€ μΆ”μ§„ν•˜κ³  μžˆλŠ” μ΄λ‹ˆμ…”ν‹°λΈŒλŠ” μ‹€μ œλ‘œ μΆ”λ‘  μ—­λŸ‰μ„ κ°€μ†ν™”ν•˜λŠ” 데 도움을 μ£ΌκΈ° μœ„ν•œ κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. 그리고 μ œκ°€ κ°•μ‘°ν–ˆλ“―μ΄, κ·Έ 결과둜 λ°μ΄ν„°μ˜ 속도와 양이 훨씬 더 λΉ λ₯΄κ²Œ 생성될 κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ‹Ήμ‚¬μ—κ²Œ μžˆμ–΄ 이점은 λͺ…ν™•ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. 훨씬 더 λ§Žμ€ μŠ€ν† λ¦¬μ§€κ°€ ν•„μš”ν•˜κ²Œ 될 것이고, HDDλŠ” μš°μˆ˜ν•œ κ²½μ œμ„±μœΌλ‘œ 이에 맀우 μ ν•©ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. μš°λ¦¬λŠ” μ€€λΉ„λœ λ°œμ–Έμ—μ„œ κ°•μ‘°ν–ˆλ“―μ΄, λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒμ˜ λŒ€μ—­ν­κ³Ό μ²˜λ¦¬λŸ‰μ„ λͺ¨λ‘ κ°œμ„ ν•˜κΈ° μœ„ν•œ ν₯미둜운 ν˜μ‹  μž‘μ—…μ„ μ§„ν–‰ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이 뢀뢄은 λ‹€μŒ 주에 μ—¬λŸ¬λΆ„ λͺ¨λ‘μ™€ κ³΅μœ ν•  수 있기λ₯Ό κΈ°λŒ€ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Operator: The next question is from Vijay Rakesh with Mizuho.**Operator:** λ‹€μŒ μ§ˆλ¬Έμ€ Mizuho의 Vijay Rakeshμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Vijay Rakesh: Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Research Division Kris, pretty phenomenal numbers here. Just a quick question on the HAMR side. Are you expecting to pull in the HAMR road map time line given how tight supply is, et cetera?**Vijay Rakesh:**

미즈호 증ꢌ USA LLC, λ¦¬μ„œμΉ˜ λΆ€λ¬Έμ˜ μ§ˆλ¬Έμ΄κ΅°μš”. 정말 λ†€λΌμš΄ μ‹€μ μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. HAMR κ΄€λ ¨ν•΄μ„œ κ°„λ‹¨νžˆ μ§ˆλ¬Έλ“œλ¦¬κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 곡급이 μ΄λ ‡κ²Œ νƒ€μ΄νŠΈν•œ 상황 등을 κ³ λ €ν•  λ•Œ, HAMR λ‘œλ“œλ§΅ 일정을 μ•žλ‹ΉκΈΈ κ³„νšμ΄μ‹ κ°€μš”?

CEO & Director: Yes. We've pulled in the qualification already by half year. And we've started the qualification process with one customer. As I just mentioned earlier to Karl's question, we will be starting a qualification with a second customer imminently on qualification. Obviously, getting HAMR and higher capacity drives to our customers are a key part of the approach that we're taking to meet the strong demand for exabytes from our customers on HDD. But it's also very important to remember, we also have started the qualification of our next-generation ePMR drives. And those products have shown the ability not to only deliver very high capacity per drive, but also to be able to support a high degree of scalability and manufacturability where we are able to deliver large volumes of drives to our customers. So, last quarter, we delivered over 3.5 million drives. And this quarter, we're looking to deliver close to 4 million drives.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, 이미 인증 일정을 λ°˜λ…„ μ•žλ‹Ήκ²ΌμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 그리고 ν•œ 고객사와 인증 ν”„λ‘œμ„ΈμŠ€λ₯Ό μ‹œμž‘ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ•žμ„œ Karl의 μ§ˆλ¬Έμ— λ‹΅λ³€λ“œλ¦° κ²ƒμ²˜λŸΌ, κ³§ 두 번째 고객사와도 인증을 μ‹œμž‘ν•  μ˜ˆμ •μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ¬Όλ‘  HAMRκ³Ό κ³ μš©λŸ‰ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ₯Ό 고객사에 κ³΅κΈ‰ν•˜λŠ” 것은 HDD에 λŒ€ν•œ κ³ κ°λ“€μ˜ κ°•λ ₯ν•œ μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈ μˆ˜μš”λ₯Ό μΆ©μ‘±μ‹œν‚€κΈ° μœ„ν•œ 우리 μ „λž΅μ˜ ν•΅μ‹¬μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. ν•˜μ§€λ§Œ λ™μ‹œμ— μ°¨μ„ΈλŒ€ ePMR λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒμ˜ 인증도 μ‹œμž‘ν–ˆλ‹€λŠ” 점을 κΈ°μ–΅ν•˜μ‹œλŠ” 것이 맀우 μ€‘μš”ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ μ œν’ˆλ“€μ€ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ‹Ή 맀우 높은 μš©λŸ‰μ„ μ œκ³΅ν•  뿐만 μ•„λ‹ˆλΌ, 높은 μˆ˜μ€€μ˜ ν™•μž₯μ„±κ³Ό 제쑰 λŠ₯λ ₯을 μ§€μ›ν•˜μ—¬ κ³ κ°μ—κ²Œ λŒ€λŸ‰μ˜ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ₯Ό 곡급할 수 μžˆλŠ” μ—­λŸ‰μ„ μž…μ¦ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ§€λ‚œ λΆ„κΈ°μ—λŠ” 350만 λŒ€ μ΄μƒμ˜ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ₯Ό μΆœν•˜ν–ˆκ³ , 이번 λΆ„κΈ°μ—λŠ” μ•½ 400만 λŒ€μ— κ°€κΉŒμš΄ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ₯Ό μΆœν•˜ν•  κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ μ˜ˆμƒν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Vijay Rakesh: Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Research Division Got it. And then on the gross margin trajectory, I guess, with the incremental 50% drop-through, when you look at HAMR ramps, any thoughts on how we should look at those margins? I guess you might call it on the Innovation Day, but any preliminary thoughts there?**Vijay Rakesh:** μ•Œκ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 그리고 맀좜총이읡λ₯  좔이에 λŒ€ν•΄μ„œ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬μžλ©΄, 증뢄 맀좜의 50% λ‚™μˆ˜νš¨κ³Όλ₯Ό κ³ λ €ν•  λ•Œ, HAMR λž¨ν”„μ—…μ„ 보면 μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ λ§ˆμ§„μ„ μ–΄λ–»κ²Œ 봐야 ν• κΉŒμš”? μ΄λ…Έλ² μ΄μ…˜ λ°μ΄μ—μ„œ λ§μ”€ν•˜μ‹€ μˆ˜λ„ μžˆκ² μ§€λ§Œ, ν˜„μž¬ μ˜ˆλΉ„μ μΈ 견해가 μžˆμœΌμ‹ μ§€ κΆκΈˆν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€.
CEO & Director: Yes. I mean, as we've consistently highlighted, we see the transition once HAMR gets to the same scale as our ePMR portfolio, the gross margins for HAMR will be neutral to accretive from what we have with ePMR.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, 저희가 μ§€μ†μ μœΌλ‘œ 강쑰해왔듯이, HAMRκ°€ ePMR ν¬νŠΈν΄λ¦¬μ˜€μ™€ λ™μΌν•œ 규λͺ¨μ— λ„λ‹¬ν•˜λ©΄ HAMR의 맀좜총이읡λ₯ (gross margin)은 ν˜„μž¬ ePMR λŒ€λΉ„ μ€‘λ¦½μ μ΄κ±°λ‚˜ κ°œμ„ λ  κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ 보고 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Operator: The next question is from Steven Fox with Fox Advisors.**Operator:** λ‹€μŒ μ§ˆλ¬Έμ€ Fox Advisors의 Steven Foxλ‹˜κ»˜μ„œ μ£Όμ‹­λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Fox Advisors LLC: I was wondering if you could maybe talk about the revenue per exabyte in the quarter compared to last quarter and a year ago in the sense that how much of the change quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year is related to change in mix? And then I had a follow-up, if I could.**Fox Advisors LLC:** 이번 λΆ„κΈ° μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈλ‹Ή λ§€μΆœμ— λŒ€ν•΄ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ§€λ‚œ λΆ„κΈ° 및 μ „λ…„ 동기와 λΉ„κ΅ν–ˆμ„ λ•Œ, μ „λΆ„κΈ° λŒ€λΉ„ 그리고 μ „λ…„ λŒ€λΉ„ λ³€ν™” 쀑 μ œν’ˆ 믹슀 변화와 κ΄€λ ¨λœ 뢀뢄이 μ–Όλ§ˆλ‚˜ λ˜λŠ”μ§€ κΆκΈˆν•˜μ‹œλ‹€λŠ” μ§ˆλ¬Έμ΄μ‹  것 κ°™μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μΆ”κ°€ μ§ˆλ¬Έλ„ μžˆμœΌμ‹œλ‹€κ³  ν•˜μ…¨λŠ”λ°, λ¨Όμ € 이 뢀뢄에 λŒ€ν•΄ λ‹΅λ³€λ“œλ¦° ν›„ λ‹€μŒ 질문 λ°›κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
CEO & Director: Yes. Maybe I can start off here, and Kris might want to add in. Look, the big driver of our sort of revenue per exabyte both year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter is related to our cloud segment. So, our big hyperscale customers, we see very strong demand from that segment. So, obviously, that's driving a lot of the bits and the revenues associated with that. And in that segment, as Kris has highlighted, the pricing is stable. So, in fact, it was up single digit last quarter and year-on-year as well. So that's a positive trend that we continue to see, and that's going to be a growth driver for the business for the year and probably for the next two years as well.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, μ œκ°€ λ¨Όμ € λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬κ³  Krisκ°€ 보좩할 수 μžˆμ„ 것 κ°™μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈλ‹Ή 맀좜의 μ£Όμš” 동인은 μ „λ…„ λŒ€λΉ„λ‚˜ μ „λΆ„κΈ° λŒ€λΉ„ λͺ¨λ‘ ν΄λΌμš°λ“œ λΆ€λ¬Έκ³Ό 관련이 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λŒ€ν˜• ν•˜μ΄νΌμŠ€μΌ€μΌ κ³ κ°λ“€λ‘œλΆ€ν„° 맀우 κ°•λ ₯ν•œ μˆ˜μš”λ₯Ό 보고 있고, 이것이 λΉ„νŠΈ 증가와 그에 λ”°λ₯Έ λ§€μΆœμ„ κ²¬μΈν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. Krisκ°€ κ°•μ‘°ν–ˆλ“―μ΄ 이 λΆ€λ¬Έμ˜ 가격은 μ•ˆμ •μ μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ‹€μ œλ‘œ μ§€λ‚œ 뢄기와 μ „λ…„ λŒ€λΉ„ λͺ¨λ‘ ν•œ 자릿수 μƒμŠΉν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŠ” 계속 ν™•μΈλ˜κ³  μžˆλŠ” 긍정적인 좔세이며, μ˜¬ν•΄λŠ” λ¬Όλ‘  ν–₯ν›„ 2년간도 μ‚¬μ—…μ˜ μ„±μž₯ 동λ ₯이 될 κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Fox Advisors LLC: And if I could just quickly follow up. Can you just -- is there any commentary on how successful you were in terms of maybe getting out more exabytes during the quarter than originally planned for or whether through quicker customer qualifications or your own efficiencies? Any update there would be helpful.**Fox Advisors LLC:** 그리고 λΉ λ₯΄κ²Œ 후속 질문 λ“œλ¦¬κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λΆ„κΈ° 쀑에 λ‹Ήμ΄ˆ κ³„νšν–ˆλ˜ 것보닀 더 λ§Žμ€ μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈλ₯Ό μΆœν•˜ν•˜λŠ” 데 μ–Όλ§ˆλ‚˜ μ„±κ³΅μ μ΄μ—ˆλŠ”μ§€, 고객 인증 μ ˆμ°¨κ°€ 더 λΉ¨λΌμ‘ŒλŠ”μ§€ μ•„λ‹ˆλ©΄ 자체 νš¨μœ¨μ„± κ°œμ„ μ„ ν†΅ν•΄μ„œμ˜€λŠ”μ§€μ— λŒ€ν•΄ 말씀해 μ£Όμ‹€ 수 μžˆμœΌμ‹ κ°€μš”? κ·Έ 뢀뢄에 λŒ€ν•œ μ—…λ°μ΄νŠΈλ₯Ό μ£Όμ‹œλ©΄ 도움이 될 것 κ°™μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
CEO & Director: Yes. Well, last quarter, we delivered 215 exabytes, right? That was up 22% year-on-year. And again, a lot of it is being driven by our cloud portfolio. As we've highlighted, we shipped over 3.5 million units of our current ePMR products that go up to 32 terabyte. So it's a clear recognition of the stability, quality and scalability of that product. So we will continue to do that, and we look forward to ramping the next generation of ePMR and HAMR in the coming quarters to better support the customer demand.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, μ§€λ‚œ 뢄기에 μ €ν¬λŠ” 215μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈλ₯Ό μΆœν•˜ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ „λ…„ λŒ€λΉ„ 22% μ¦κ°€ν•œ 수치죠. μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ μ„±μž₯은 λŒ€λΆ€λΆ„ ν΄λΌμš°λ“œ ν¬νŠΈν΄λ¦¬μ˜€κ°€ κ²¬μΈν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦° 바와 같이, μ΅œλŒ€ 32ν…ŒλΌλ°”μ΄νŠΈκΉŒμ§€ μ§€μ›ν•˜λŠ” ν˜„μž¬ ePMR μ œν’ˆμ„ 350만 λŒ€ 이상 μΆœν•˜ν–ˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŠ” ν•΄λ‹Ή μ œν’ˆμ˜ μ•ˆμ •μ„±κ³Ό ν’ˆμ§ˆ, ν™•μž₯성을 λͺ…ν™•νžˆ μž…μ¦ν•˜λŠ” κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ•žμœΌλ‘œλ„ 이λ₯Ό 지속할 것이며, ν–₯ν›„ 뢄기에 μ°¨μ„ΈλŒ€ ePMRκ³Ό HAMR을 본격적으둜 μ–‘μ‚°ν•˜μ—¬ 고객 μˆ˜μš”λ₯Ό λ”μš± 효과적으둜 지원할 수 있기λ₯Ό κΈ°λŒ€ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Operator: The next question is from Ananda Baruah with Loop Capital.**Operator:** λ‹€μŒ μ§ˆλ¬Έμ€ Loop Capital의 Ananda Baruahλ‹˜κ»˜μ„œ μ£Όμ…¨μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Ananda Baruah: Loop Capital Markets LLC, Research Division On cost down, you mentioned that I think, Kris, December quarter was 10% year-over-year down. And with UltraSMR becoming a larger portion of the ship and then with HAMR coming on sort of margin neutral to positive, do you think that cost down, I think it's classically been about 10% year-over-year. Do you think that can increase in coming years, cost out increasing per exabyte ship?**Ananda Baruah:** λΉ„μš© 절감 κ΄€λ ¨ν•΄μ„œ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬λ©΄, ν¬λ¦¬μŠ€κ°€ 12μ›” 뢄기에 μ „λ…„ λŒ€λΉ„ 10% κ°μ†Œν–ˆλ‹€κ³  μ–ΈκΈ‰ν•˜μ‹  κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ μ•Œκ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. UltraSMR이 μΆœν•˜λŸ‰μ—μ„œ 더 큰 비쀑을 μ°¨μ§€ν•˜κ²Œ 되고, HAMR도 λ§ˆμ§„ μ€‘λ¦½μ—μ„œ ν”ŒλŸ¬μŠ€λ‘œ μ „ν™˜λ˜λŠ” μƒν™©μ—μ„œ, μ „ν†΅μ μœΌλ‘œ μ—°κ°„ μ•½ 10% μˆ˜μ€€μ΄μ—ˆλ˜ λΉ„μš© 절감λ₯ μ΄ ν–₯ν›„ λͺ‡ λ…„κ°„ 더 증가할 수 μžˆμ„κΉŒμš”? μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈλ‹Ή λΉ„μš© 절감폭이 더 컀질 수 μžˆλ‹€κ³  λ³΄μ‹œλŠ”μ§€ κΆκΈˆν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Kris Sennesael: Executive VP & CFO Yes. So, currently, it's on or about 10% cost per terabyte or exabyte reductions. Obviously, we will continue to innovate, continue to push to higher capacity drives, continue to upshift our customers to adoption of those higher capacity drives, including UltraSMR. And all of those actions will lead to further cost reductions on a cost per terabyte. I think it's fair to say that's on or about 10% is a good number. And as we potentially accelerate our road maps, we could potentially drive that higher.**Kris Sennesael:** ν˜„μž¬ ν…ŒλΌλ°”μ΄νŠΈλ‹Ή λ˜λŠ” μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈλ‹Ή μ•½ 10% μ •λ„μ˜ λΉ„μš© μ ˆκ°μ„ λ‹¬μ„±ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. λ¬Όλ‘  μš°λ¦¬λŠ” μ§€μ†μ μœΌλ‘œ ν˜μ‹ ν•˜κ³ , 더 높은 μš©λŸ‰μ˜ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ₯Ό κ°œλ°œν•˜λ©°, 고객듀이 UltraSMR을 ν¬ν•¨ν•œ κ³ μš©λŸ‰ λ“œλΌμ΄λΈŒλ₯Ό μ±„νƒν•˜λ„λ‘ μœ λ„ν•  κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ΄λŸ¬ν•œ λͺ¨λ“  μ‘°μΉ˜λ“€μ΄ ν…ŒλΌλ°”μ΄νŠΈλ‹Ή λΉ„μš©μ„ λ”μš± μ ˆκ°ν•˜λŠ” 결과둜 μ΄μ–΄μ§ˆ κ²ƒμž…λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ•½ 10% 정도가 μ μ •ν•œ 수치라고 λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦΄ 수 μžˆκ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 그리고 λ‘œλ“œλ§΅μ„ 가속화할 경우, 이보닀 더 높은 λΉ„μš© μ ˆκ°λ„ κ°€λŠ₯ν•  κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ λ΄…λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Ananda Baruah: Loop Capital Markets LLC, Research Division**Ananda Baruah:** I notice you've shared a header "Loop Capital Markets LLC, Research Division" but there's no actual Q&A content to translate.

Could you please provide the management response or dialogue from the earnings call that you'd like me to translate into Korean? I'm ready to translate the spoken content once you share it.
Ambrish Srivastava: Vice President of Investor Relations Do you have a follow-up, Ananda?**Ambrish Srivastava:** 후속 질문 μžˆμœΌμ‹ κ°€μš”, μ•„λ‚œλ‹€?
Ananda Baruah: Loop Capital Markets LLC, Research Division Yes, quick. This may be one for next week actually. But just interested in understanding how far up the areal density stack do you think you can get CMR and UltraSMR before you really get HAMR going?**Ananda Baruah:**

λ„€, κ°„λ‹¨νžˆ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 사싀 이건 λ‹€μŒ 주에 닀뀄야 ν•  λ‚΄μš©μΌ μˆ˜λ„ μžˆκ² λ„€μš”. λ‹€λ§Œ κΆκΈˆν•œ 점은, HAMRλ₯Ό 본격적으둜 κ°€λ™ν•˜κΈ° 전에 CMRκ³Ό UltraSMR둜 면적 밀도(areal density)λ₯Ό μ–Όλ§ˆλ‚˜ 높일 수 μžˆλ‹€κ³  λ³΄μ‹œλŠ”μ§€μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€.

CEO & Director: Yes. I think that's something we are looking very much forward to sharing with you next week. So we look forward to seeing you there.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, κ·Έ 뢀뢄은 λ‹€μŒ 주에 μ—¬λŸ¬λΆ„κ³Ό κ³΅μœ ν•˜κΈ°λ₯Ό 정말 κΈ°λŒ€ν•˜κ³  μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. κ·Έλ•Œ λ΅™κΈ°λ₯Ό κΈ°λŒ€ν•˜κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Operator: The last question is from Krish Sankar with TD Cowen.**Operator:** λ§ˆμ§€λ§‰ μ§ˆλ¬Έμ€ TD Cowen의 Krish Sankarλ‘œλΆ€ν„° λ°›κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Hadi Orabi: TD Cowen, Research Division This is Eddy for Krish. You mentioned you had three LTAs for 2027 and 2028 that are volume and not price based. I do wonder what is the reason these contracts are not locked in price, especially given the very tight supply? Is it the customer who prefer not to lock in price? Or is it you guys who prefer to have the flexibility? Any high-level color would be helpful.**Hadi Orabi:** μ΄λ””μž…λ‹ˆλ‹€, 크리쉬 λŒ€μ‹  μ§ˆλ¬Έλ“œλ¦½λ‹ˆλ‹€. 2027λ…„κ³Ό 2028λ…„ LTA 3건이 가격이 μ•„λ‹Œ λ¬ΌλŸ‰ 기반이라고 λ§μ”€ν•˜μ…¨λŠ”λ°μš”. 곡급이 맀우 νƒ€μ΄νŠΈν•œ μƒν™©μ—μ„œ 이 계약듀이 가격을 ν™•μ •ν•˜μ§€ μ•Šμ€ μ΄μœ κ°€ κΆκΈˆν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. 고객이 가격 확정을 μ›ν•˜μ§€ μ•ŠλŠ” κ±΄κ°€μš”? μ•„λ‹ˆλ©΄ 귀사가 μœ μ—°μ„±μ„ μ„ ν˜Έν•˜λŠ” κ±΄κ°€μš”? μ „λ°˜μ μΈ μ„€λͺ…을 λΆ€νƒλ“œλ¦½λ‹ˆλ‹€.
CEO & Director: Yes. Thanks for the question. Just to clarify, we have two customers that have LTAs through calendar year '27, one customer that has an LTA through calendar year '28. These LTAs have both price and volume conditions in them.**CEO & Director:** λ„€, 질문 κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. λͺ…ν™•νžˆ λ§μ”€λ“œλ¦¬μžλ©΄, 2027λ…„κΉŒμ§€ μž₯기곡급계약(LTA)을 μ²΄κ²°ν•œ 고객이 2κ³³ 있고, 2028λ…„κΉŒμ§€ 계약을 μ²΄κ²°ν•œ 고객이 1κ³³ μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이 μž₯κΈ°κ³΅κΈ‰κ³„μ•½λ“€μ—λŠ” 가격과 λ¬ΌλŸ‰ 쑰건이 λͺ¨λ‘ ν¬ν•¨λ˜μ–΄ μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Hadi Orabi: TD Cowen, Research Division Okay. Noted. That's great color.**Hadi Orabi:** 200000

μ•Œκ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. 쒋은 μ„€λͺ… κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€.
Operator: This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for joining. You may now disconnect.**Operator:** μ΄κ²ƒμœΌλ‘œ 였늘 컨퍼런슀 μ½œμ„ λ§ˆμΉ˜κ² μŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€. μ°Έμ—¬ν•΄ μ£Όμ…”μ„œ κ°μ‚¬ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€. 이제 연결을 μ’…λ£Œν•˜μ…”λ„ λ©λ‹ˆλ‹€.

πŸ“Œ μš”μ•½

# Western Digital 싀적 λ°œν‘œ μ£Όμš” μš”μ•½

## 핡심 재무 μ§€ν‘œ 및 싀적
- **맀좜총이읡λ₯ **: μ „λΆ„κΈ° λŒ€λΉ„ 220bp, μ „λ…„ λŒ€λΉ„ 770bp μƒμŠΉν•œ 46.1% 달성. μ°¨κΈ° κ°€μ΄λ˜μŠ€λŠ” 47~48%(쀑간값 47.5%)둜 μ „λ…„ λŒ€λΉ„ 740bp μƒμŠΉ 전망
- **증뢄 맀좜총이읡λ₯ **: μ•½ 75% μˆ˜μ€€μœΌλ‘œ 맀우 높은 μˆ˜μ΅μ„± κ°œμ„ μ„Έ μ‹œν˜„
- **μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈ μΆœν•˜λŸ‰**: 215 μ—‘μ‚¬λ°”μ΄νŠΈ μΆœν•˜, μ „λ…„ λŒ€λΉ„ 22% 증가. μ°¨μ„ΈλŒ€ ePMR μ œν’ˆ 350만 λŒ€ 이상 μΆœν•˜
- **ν…ŒλΌλ°”μ΄νŠΈλ‹Ή 가격**: μ•ˆμ •μ μ΄λ©° μ†Œν­ μƒμŠΉ μΆ”μ„Έ(μ „λΆ„κΈ° 2~3% μƒμŠΉ). ν…ŒλΌλ°”μ΄νŠΈλ‹Ή μ›κ°€λŠ” μ „λ…„ λŒ€λΉ„ μ•½ 10% ν•˜λ½

## κ°€μ΄λ˜μŠ€ 및 전망
- **2026λ…„ λ¬ΌλŸ‰ μ™„νŒ**: μƒμœ„ 7개 고객사와 ν™•μ • μ£Όλ¬Έ 체결 μ™„λ£Œ. 2개 고객사와 2027λ…„, 1개 고객사와 2028λ…„κΉŒμ§€ μž₯기곡급계약(LTA) 체결
- **UltraSMR 비쀑 ν™•λŒ€**: λ‹ˆμ–΄λΌμΈ ν¬νŠΈν΄λ¦¬μ˜€μ—μ„œ 50% 초과 달성. μƒμœ„ 3개 고객사 μ „λ©΄ λ„μž… μ™„λ£Œ, μΆ”κ°€ 2~3개 고객사 λ„μž… μ§„ν–‰ 쀑
- **HAMR 기술 일정 μ•žλ‹ΉκΉ€**: 2026λ…„ μƒλ°˜κΈ°λ‘œ μ•žλ‹Ήκ²¨ 이미 고객 검증 μ‹œμž‘.