the company has been suffering due to decreased demand for its products anyway. struggled to adjust to the decline in the HDD industry and has seen sales of its desktop and notebook drives decline. Also contributed by the fact that customers have shifted towards smartphone and tablet which has seen demand for SSD increased drastically.

However, seagate will still be maintaining their IT Shared and Human Resource Centre operations in Penang. Their substrates manufacturing operations in Johor will also continue business as usual.