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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

Top Five from RISC-V

The open source movement has demonstrated that innovation can be maximized with a large community working toward a common goal. Open source innovation often happens at a much faster pace, and can be far more focused on customer needs than when a proprietary model is used. RISC-V can democratize compute architecture and enable the creation of custom silicon without requiring an overwhelming investment or a high-volume guarantee.

May 8, 2018 • 5 min read Data

Big Data & Fast Data & RISC-V, Western Digital CTO Reveals the Connections

Martin Fink, Western Digital’s Chief Technology Officer, delivered the opening keynote at the recent Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Silicon Summit in San Jose, CA. Martin described the exponential growth we’re seeing in both the volume and value of data, Big Data and Fast Data applications and use cases, and then discussed RISC-V, the purpose-built instruction set architecture.

April 26, 2018 • 3 min read People

Western Digital Talks RISC-V and the Freedom to Innovate

What is RISC-V? Why should it matter to you? And why is Western Digital going all in with this instruction set architecture (ISA)? Our own Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink, joined by Dave Tang, Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing, sits down with theCUBE host Jeff Frick to discuss all of this […]

February 5, 2018 • 2 min read People

Open Source RISC-V: The ISA to Enable Next Generation Data-Centric Computing

RISC-V is ideally suited to serve as the foundation of data-centric compute architectures. As an OS processor, it can enable purpose-built architectures by supporting the independent scaling of resources. Its modular design approach allows for more efficient processors for edge and mobile systems.

November 28, 2017 • 5 min read People