Building the Future: Rethinking Manufacturing with Microfactories
Powered by 4IR technologies, microfactories are reimagining manufacturing as faster, more resilient, and distributed around the world.
September 14, 2022 • 5 min read Technology
FBO Delivers Sustained Mobile Phone Performance
A new, behind-the-scenes feature called File-Based Optimization (FBO) is helping mobile phones maintain a performance edge over their lifetime. Whether it’s email, online banking, gaming, streaming, or sharing photo and videos, people do just about everything on their phones. Mobile phones have become essential devices serving as a computer, game console, and camera all-in-one. The […]
September 7, 2022 • 6 min read Technology
Building the Future: Western Digital’s 4IR Transformation
Western Digital uses a suite of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to guide the digital transformation of its facilities.
September 1, 2022 • 7 min read Technology
SSD Heatsink: Hot Data, Cool Storage
Look inside most modern computers, and you’ll see a horde of heatsinks crowning different devices. But until now, SSDs weren’t one of them. In fact, SSDs were considered a cooler alternative to PC hard drives, as they had a lower power draw and no friction from moving parts. However, as SSDs continue to push the […]
August 24, 2022 • 6 min read Products
DNA Data Storage: The Next Chapter
DNA — nicknamed “nature’s storage medium” — has accurately stored the instruction sets for all life on Earth for billions of years. But it also may hold the keys to managing explosive data growth and storing archival data for generations to come. The idea of storing digital data in DNA dates back more than a […]
August 16, 2022 • 5 min read Technology
Carmen Ng Soo Fun: A Stable Line
Carmen Ng Soo Fun manages a highly skilled team that implements cutting-edge Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies.
August 8, 2022 • 5 min read People
Black Holes: Photographing the Universe’s Greatest Mystery
Since 2015, Western Digital has been supporting the Event Horizon Telescope, a groundbreaking virtual telescope observing and imaging black holes. Almost every image we’ve seen of a black hole isn’t an image at all. It is an illustration of what we think black holes look like, based on mathematical theory and fairly recent evidence that […]
August 2, 2022 • 8 min read Data
A Fresh Start: Western Digital’s Internship Program
Western Digital's internship program offers students the opportunity to apply their classroom skills to business-critical projects.
July 28, 2022 • 6 min read People
Dispatches from Deep Space: Imaging Data and Space Photography
Powered by technology and data, space photography plays a vital role in communicating NASA's vital work to the public.
July 12, 2022 • 5 min read Technology
Kiranmai Pendyala: Conquering Beautiful Challenges
At age 18, Kiranmai Pendyala was the kind of student parents in Southern India dreamed of raising. She was whip smart and dedicated, with a bright future in medicine. At the time, medicine was a young woman’s golden ticket to a secure seat in the middle class. But Kiranmai had a secret: she feared blood. […]
July 6, 2022 • 5 min read People