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Seagate on Thursday announced plans to cut down its hard drive production and reduce its workforce by 3,000 people due to significantly lower demand for HDDs that it faced in the first quarter of its fiscal 2023. The company's Q1 of FY2023 was the company's worst quarter in 15 years as its earnings barely exceeded $2 billion and the company's net income dropped by 18 times year-over-year. Also, Seagate is facing charges for shipping hard drives to Huawei. Exabytes Shipments Decline for First Time Seagate does not disclose the number of hard drives it ships per quarter, but unit sales of HDDs have been gradually going down for years, while exabytes shipments have been growing. In Q1 FY2023 everything changed as Seagate's HDD capacity dropped to 118.2EB, down from 154.6EB in the previous quarter and 159.1EB from the same quarter a year ago. There were several reasons why Seagate's shipments dropped and the company's financial situation changed drastically in the first quarter of its FY2023. First, COVID lockdowns in China caused an economic slowdown, which reduced demand for Seagate's products. Second, due to slowing economic growth, Seagate's customers initiated inventory adjustments, which further reduced the company's sales. Third, due to decelerating economy and increased logistics costs, CSPs began to ship hard drives and other on boats (as opposed to planes), which slowed down their procurement cycle. Finally, consumers cut down their spending amid inflation and geopolitical uncertainties. Since Seagate tends to produce hard drive platters, heads, and some other HDD components internally and assembles drives on its own product lines, reduced number of drives and lower demand for its products requires it to adjust its production capacity and headcount. Consequently, it had to implement a restructuring plan to reduce its costs, which includes laying off 8% of its personnel, or approximately 3,000 employees. The plan will be completed by the end of Q2 FY2023, will cost from $60 million to $70 million, and will save Seagate about $110 million per annum starting Q3 FY2023. Seagate's revenue reached $2.035 billion in Q1 FY2023, down 35% year-over-year as well as a decrease of 23% quarter-over-quarter. Sales of hard disk drives dropped by 38% year-over-year and accounted for 87% of the company's sales, whereas sales of solid-state drives and systems were up 5% YoY and accounted for 13% of the firm's revenue. Seagate's net income totaled $29 million down, down from $529 million in Q1 FY2023 when the company's results were fueled by unprecedented demand for hard drives by cloud service providers (CSPs) as well as Chia miners. Charges from SEC In addition to decreasing sales of hard drives, Seagate also faces charges from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Seagate said this week that in late August it received a proposed charging letter (PCL) from the U.S. DoC BIS alleging violations of the U.S. export regulations by shipping hard drives a company from the Entity List in 2020 – 2021. The company is believed to be Huawei. Under the rules imposed by the U.S. DoC in August, 2020, companies that ship products subject to U.S. export control that was developed or made using U.S. IP, software, technology or equipment to Huawei or any of its affiliates must obtain an export license from the BIS. Seagate believes that it did not violate any rules as its products were not subject the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Technically, the limitations against Huawei mostly concern semiconductors, but since Seagate's hard drives use controllers and memory designed using electronic design automation tools developed by American companies and produced using equipment made in the U.S., they fall into the category of export-controlled items. If Seagate and the DoC cannot resolve the matter, the HDD maker will have to pay charges for violating export rules. "Tom's Hardware"

Apple's new iPhone 14 Pro Dynamic Island is now just a little more dynamic. iOS 16.1, which officially dropped on millions of iPhones this week, brought with it new gesture controls to Apple's innovative notch replacement. Available only on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, the Dynamic Island not only moved the True Depth Module down from the iPhone's top edge, but it also created a fungible island of functionality. From a technical perspective, the Dynamic Island is actually two Super Retina Display XDR screen cutouts, one pill-shaped and the other wider and more cylindrical. Apple cannily uses the small bits of pixels between the two shapes to create what appears to be a lively and fully dynamic digital island. Inside the Dynamic island are activity symbols to indicate if, for instance, your phone is locked, playing music, or delivering Map-based directions. It can appear to expand to offer more map details or conduct a Face ID scan. In other words, the Island, which also supports third-party apps, is designed to be many things to many people. In iOS 16.1 it gets another trick. The Dynamic Island is already capable of displaying two running apps at once, but they generally sit as two distinct islands with home screen pixels separating them. Now, with a gesture, you can easily hide one activity. Apple confirmed that this feature, which first appeared in iOS 16.1 beta is now part of the public download. For example, we launched Apple Music and started playing a song, then switched to Maps and set the navigation for home. On the home screen, the Dynamic Island displayed these activities in two separate, for lack of a better word, islands. If we place a finger on, for instance, the smaller music island and swipe to the left the music island is hidden, and we have just one original-sized Dynamic Island running our Map directions. Another quick left swipe on the far left side of the Dynamic Island unhides the music app, which ends up back on its own tiny island on the right. Granted, it's a small change, but also an indication that Apple views the Dynamic Island, which already responds to taps, as a platform on which it can build a world of interaction. "TechRadar"

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