RISC-V
Opening Doors to Open-Source Hardware, Software and Standards
From zoned storage to root-of-trust chips to shared memory pools, we're leading open-source innovation to drive new system architectures. Learn more here.
February 24, 2020 • 5 min read People
The First RISC-V Hackathon in Israel
The first RISC-V Hackathon in Israel included students from Bar-Ilan and Ben-Gurion Universities, developers from NextSilicon and GSOC solutions, and well-established technology leaders such as Mellanox, IBM, and Western Digital and even a team from the Israel Defense Forces.
February 4, 2020 • 3 min read Data
Driving to Data-Centric Architectures and 1B RISC-V Cores
Our open sourced RISC-V-based SweRV Core family is growing by two as we announce the world’s first commercial dual-threaded embedded core, SweRV Core EH2, and the company’s smallest SweRV Core to date, EL2.
December 10, 2019 • 4 min read Data
Five Reasons the 2019 RISC-V Summit is a Can’t-Miss Event
The 2019 RISC-V Summit, December 10-12 in San Jose, is a can’t-miss event for everyone interested in learning how the free and open ISA is transforming the computing landscape and beyond.
November 18, 2019 • 2 min read Data
OmniXtend™ Cache-Coherent Fabric Drives Innovation with RISC-V
OmniXtend is the open approach to providing cache coherent memory over an Ethernet fabric & can enable innovation in next-generation data-centric computing.
June 18, 2019 • 3 min read Data
RISC-V SweRV CoreTM Available to Open Source Community
We delivered on our promise to open source the SweRV Core, which supports our internal RISC-V development efforts & those of the growing RISC-V ecosystem.
April 11, 2019 • 3 min read Data
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
Five Reasons the RISC-V Summit is a Can’t-Miss Event
The RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara, California, is a can’t-miss event for everyone interested in learning how the free and open ISA is transforming the computing landscape and beyond. Here are the Top 5 reasons not to miss the summit!
November 27, 2018 • 2 min read Data
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