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Unleashing Innovation from Core to the Edge
At the first RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara, California, Western Digital EVP & CTO Martin Fink delivered a keynote entitled, "Unleashing Innovation from Core to the Edge," punctuated by announcements of three new Western Digital developed open-source innovations.
December 19, 2018 • 2 min read People
Data Innovation Bazaar: A Platform to Unlock the Power of Data
The Data Innovation Bazaar was formally launched this year in association with Startup India and Invest India. The event invited applications from around India, focusing on disruptive inventions in healthcare, education, transportation, cleantech and renewable, while leveraging data.
December 12, 2018 • 5 min read People
Introducing the New WesternDigital.com
This morning we launched a fully redesigned westerndigital.com—and it’s more than a visual makeover. This new site truly reflects who Western Digital is today. If you have been witness to Western Digital for the past six years, you might be familiar with our journey. We have made some notable acquisitions with HGST, SanDisk and Tegile. […]
November 12, 2018 • 3 min read People
Accelerating the RISC-V Ecosystem
Learn about accelerating the RISC-V ecosystem: 1. The current state of the ecosystem; 2. What it needs and the work that must be done. For those who want to be part of defining, inventing and creating where the world's going to be and how the next generation of applications are going to be optimized, this is the time to be involved.
October 1, 2018 • 2 min read People
RISC-V and Future Data Workloads
Learn how the role of data is changing in our lives, and find out why this makes alternative approaches to processing data important, by watching this short video discussion between Steffen Hellmold, VP of Corporate Strategy, and Martin Fink, CTO, as their conversation about RISC-V continues.
September 6, 2018 • 2 min read People
Western Digital’s RISC-V Strategy
Explore the RISC-V strategy at Western Digital by watching this short video of Steffen Hellmold, VP of Corporate Strategy, talking with Martin Fink, CTO, as they continue their discussion regarding RISC-V, now and in the future.
August 20, 2018 • 2 min read People
What’s the Buzz about RISC-V?
Check out a short video of Steffen Hellmold, VP of Corporate Strategy, and Martin Fink, CTO, discussing RISC-V and why it is interesting to Western Digital. The first in a series to communicate our RISC-V strategy.
August 6, 2018 • 2 min read People
How Open Innovation Can Free the Data Path
A general purpose processor is fine for most servers and mobile phones, but isn’t optimized for the specific requirements created by the rise of Big Data and Fast Data applications. A big data application such as analytics has a very different processing profile that can handle large amounts of data versus a Fast Data application such as autonomous car controls, which requires time-critical processing for smaller amounts of data.
August 6, 2018 • 6 min read Data
Step Into the Office of the CTO
How can we help create value from data? Since a large percentage of the world’s data lives on our products, we believe that Western Digital is in a unique position to drive innovation around data. We look forward to sharing the excitement of our activities.
June 27, 2018 • 2 min read People
Western Digital’s New Blog to #LetDataThrive
We’re thrilled to kick off 2018 with a brand new blog site to talk about … data. Yes, data. To most, data is not a new subject. It likely one that you are extremely familiar with. But as a world leader in system and technologies that live everywhere from advanced data centers to mobile sensors […]
January 4, 2018 • 2 min read Data