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                                                                    EXHIBIT 99.2


Company Contact:
Robert J. Blair
Western Digital Corporation
212.867.4490
bob.blair@wdc.com


For Immediate Release


       WESTERN DIGITAL ANNOUNCES EXPANSION OF PRODUCT DESIGN ACTIVITY AT
   CHAI CHEE SINGAPORE OPERATION; ACCELERATES MOVE OF DESKTOP HDD TO MALAYSIA

         Chai Chee, Singapore--Aug. 13, 1999--Western Digital Corporation (NYSE:
WDC) today announced a plan to further develop its Chai Chee, Singapore facility
as a regional technical and manufacturing support center, focusing its resources
on value-add engineering rather than production volume. The Company also
indicated it was accelerating the consolidation of its high-volume desktop hard
drive production in its Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian facility to improve
manufacturing efficiencies and costs, while focusing its Singapore production
resources on desktop hard drive development and component qualification and on
production of high end WD Enterprise hard drives.

         Arif Shakeel, Western Digital's senior vice president of operations,
stated: "The plan announced today reflects a significant move up the value chain
for WD Singapore, applying the accumulated experience of more than 10 years of
hard drive manufacturing to the design, development and production deployment
process. The engineering organization in Chai Chee has delivered the core
controller designs for WD's MR and GMR desktop product families and is currently
working on the next two generations of products for both the PC and home
entertainment marketplaces. We are expanding the existing electronics design
center and plan to double the existing staff to accommodate this growth."

         Western Digital indicated it is in discussion with the EDB to add a
mechanical product design group in Chai Chee and to enlarge its existing tooling
and process design and development groups. These advances in Singapore's
engineering role are designed to improve linkage with Western Digital's
predominantly Asian-based supply partners, and speed the development of new
products.

         The evolution of the engineering role in the Singapore facility will
complement the previously announced consolidation of worldwide materials
planning and procurement responsibility in Singapore.

         The realignment of hard drive manufacturing will result in a reduction
among the production-related Chai Chee work force. In addition, due to the
ongoing improvement in WD hard drive quality and reliability in the field, the
customer repair center in Chai Chee will also be reduced in size. The plan
announced today will be implemented on a phased basis through December, 1999. It
will result in a reduction of approximately 2,000 direct and 500 indirect
workers at Chai Chee. Following these reductions, the WD Chai Chee workforce
will include approximately 1,200 direct and 500 indirect workers.

         The first phase is effective today and will affect about 300 direct and
25 indirect workers, primarily in the customer service center. The Company has
made arrangements, together with the appropriate Singaporean government
agencies, to provide retraining and placement support to those people leaving
Western Digital.