Technology and Strategy
From Rebel to Innovator
Yan Li has 214 patents. She’s been with Western Digital for 22 years. She has a Ph.D. in Materials Science. And she’s a rebel.
September 3, 2020 • 4 min read People
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
Western Digital’s Bruce Terris Named IEEE Fellow
Bruce’s recognition by the IEEE is a great honor, and we are extremely proud that he could realize his scientific vision within Western Digital. The application of magnetism in data storage devices is one of the key areas of today’s innovation.
February 12, 2020 • 4 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
A Memory Card Moment, 20 Years in the Making
Twenty years and nearly 5 billion SD/microSD cards later, we look back at how memory cards evolved to help make life easier for consumers and businesses.
January 28, 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
Making Data Infrastructure Safer and More Transparent with OpenTitan
We have entered an exciting new partnership with lowRISC and Google in support of OpenTitan, the first open-source project building transparent, high-quality reference design and integration guidelines for silicon root of trust (RoT) chips that can be used in data storage, compute, and other hardware platforms.
November 5, 2019 • 5 min read People
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
What is Zoned Storage and the Zoned Storage Initiative?
Zoned Storage is a new paradigm in storage motivated by the incredible explosion of data. This blog looks at what it is, how it's being adopted, SMR HDDs and Zoned Namespaces SSDs use cases, and the Zoned Storage Initiative.
June 14, 2019 • 8 min read Data