Mobile
Smarter Data and a New Era of Connected Health Care
Mike Verdugo, senior director of business process transformation in Western Digital’s corporate strategy organization, is passionate about the roles data and storage play in improving people’s lives. When he was 33 years old, he was diagnosed with Type I, insulin-dependent diabetes. A life changing event. Originally, Verdugo had to prick his finger several times a […]
March 28, 2023 • 6 min read Data
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
Not Just Talk: How Mobile Storage Keeps Pace with Smart Phones
Storage is the oft-unsung innovation behind every smart phone. How has mobile storage evolved to keep pace with advances in mobile phones?
July 19, 2021 • 6 min read Technology
4 Ways 5G Could Radically Alter How We Consume Content
From 8K video streaming to real-time cloud gaming and more, we explore four ways that 5G could make content more immersive and responsive than ever.
May 12, 2020 • 5 min read Data
5G Turbo Speeds? We First Need to Remove the Bottlenecks
We need to make sure that hardware will not be a limiter of 5G capabilities. That’s why we’re taking high speed storage to the next level. With the iNAND MC EU521, we’re giving mobile device equipment manufacturers a 5G market-ready solution.
February 18, 2020 • 6 min read Data
5G — Where Are We and What’s Next?
5G turns a new blank page for the bold and the capable ones to launch new products, unveil novel use cases, and drive innovative applications with the newfound capabilities of high speed and low latency.
April 24, 2019 • 6 min read People
Top 8 Mobile Market and Technology Trends
Although saturation concerns exist, we’re shortly before the next revolution of the mobile computing experience. Here’s a look at the top 8 developments shaping mobile technology and its future trends.
February 27, 2019 • 6 min read Data
3D NAND and How the Data Explosion Defines the Future
At the recent China Flash Market Summit, Christopher Bergey, Senior Vice President of Devices Products at Western Digital, delivered a keynote address on the future of storage and memory technology. How is the data explosion driving innovation such as 3D NAND? Keep reading to find out! As the data universe continues to expand, it’s exciting […]
October 11, 2018 • 6 min read Data
Top 7 Trends at Mobile World Congress 2018
“5G”, “ecosystem”, “edge compute”, “NOW!” As I walked the halls of Mobile World Congress 2018, these were among the most common words vendors used to attract attention to their booths. (There were also some more surprising themes, like “the Internet of Cows” which I’ll explain…) But they all represent deeper messages and the top trends […]
March 16, 2018 • 6 min read Data
Behind the Scenes with the Best Enabling Tech: Embedded Flash
As I watched A-list celebrities strut down The Red Carpet on Awards Night, I couldn’t help but think about all of the other crew members who work tirelessly behind the scenes to make the end product shine… I realized it’s a lot like embedded flash in today’s mobile IoT devices such as smartphones, laptops, wearables, […]
March 5, 2018 • 5 min read Data