$WDC CFO @ Citi TMT: "Currently we don't see a digestion. It's actually the opposite. Every time we go and talk to our customers, myself or my CEO or our salespeople, they come back with a stronger demand signal and better visibility for longer term."
$WDC CEO says storage demand and requirement compound and grow whether AI runs on US frontier models or cheaper open-source ones.
"Whether it's the traditional frontier models that you've seen in the U.S. that are premium-based, or some of the new open-source, more economical models, the underlying requirement is still that they're going to require a lot of data to support the training of these models."
"These models are going to generate a lot more data that requires storage for us."
"So we view it as very positive, because even as compute maybe drives greater efficiency in terms of compute and memory resources, the requirement for storage is just going to compound and grow."
"So we view it very positively for demand going forward."