As director of packaging engineering within Western Digital’s global operations, Hooi Bin Lim operates on a scale of microns or, as she describes, technologies as thin as sheets of paper. An innovator driven to uncover what’s next, Lim is responsible for development and qualification of System-in-a-Package (SiP). A SiP is a component inside a storage device containing […]
September 21, 2022 • 5 min read People
Powered by 4IR technologies, microfactories are reimagining manufacturing as faster, more resilient, and distributed around the world.
September 14, 2022 • 5 min read Technology
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
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
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 — 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 manages a highly skilled team that implements cutting-edge Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies.
August 8, 2022 • 5 min read People
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
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
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
