Complete the spin-off of the Flash business
Delivered after the deadline (52 days after the deadline)
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- Announced
- 30 Oct 2023
- Due
- 31 Dec 2024
- Delivered
- 21 Feb 2025
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“Transaction is targeted for the second half of calendar year 2024, subject to principal closing and certain other conditions”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Western Digital completed the spin-off of its Flash business unit on February 21, 2025, which occurred after the targeted deadline of the second half of 2024.
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A Western Digital 10-K filed 2025-08-14
“On February 21, 2025, we completed our planned spin-off of our Flash business unit from our remaining HDD business (which we refer to as the Separation), as a result of which Sandisk became an independent public company.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +0.5% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (13 Aug 2025 to 18 Aug 2025). What this measures
Checked 8 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Separation
- Indicative materiality
- Transformational rules
- Action
- Complete
- Deliverable
- Spin-off of Flash business
- Language
- Aspirational (“aims”, “intends”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: subject to principal closing; final approval of the Western Digital Board; receipts of opinion and/or rulings with respect to the tax-free nature of the transaction
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Partner
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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