In a groundbreaking ceremony today, Seagate announced that the new facility will be located at one-north and is expected to completed in early 2015.
“The Shugart’ is Seagate’s S$100m investment in Singapore, and will be completed in early 2015.
The new Design and R&D Centre will be named “The Shugart” – after Seagate’s founder, Alan Shugart – and provide world-class research and development (R&D) facilities for the mobile storage R&D team in Singapore..
The facility will be able to house up to 900 employees, and have have a gross floor area of approximately 40,880 square metres.
The Shugart will comprise a nine-floor tower connected to a six-floor tower with three basement levels.
It will focus on the development of 2.5-inch small form-factor products for notebooks, ultra-books, convertibles and tablets.
The new facility will allow all R&D personnel to be housed together, thus fostering greater collaboration and innovation.
From left: Mike Troemel, Vice President, Development Engineering of Seagate Technology; Bob Whitmore, Technical Advisor of Seagate Technology; Julian Ho, Assistant Managing Director of the Singapore Economic Development Board; and Mark Re, Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President, Research & Development of Seagate Technology.
