Technology and Strategy
Enabling the Zettabyte Age
An ecosystem of hardware and software developers progress into the zettabyte age and drive the innovation needed for next generation data infrastructure.
June 11, 2019 • 6 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
See Our Machine Learning Accelerator at Embedded World
At its booth at Embedded World 2019, Western Digital, in collaboration with Mipsology, will demonstrate a small form factor (SFF) machine learning accelerator prototype, optimized to enhance the performance and efficiency of data-centric machine-learning applications in data centers at the edge.
February 20, 2019 • 3 min read Technology
Western Digital’s New Collaboration with UCSC on Genomics Sequencing Could Accelerate Results
This multi-year, joint research and development agreement with the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and Baskin School of Engineering supports a collaborative team in genomics and computer engineering who believe that moving computational capabilities closer to data storage will help speed up the process of identifying and treating cancer.
January 29, 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
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
A New Breakthrough for Main Memory Scale-Out
Western Digital presented a breakthrough solution at the P4 European Workshop (P4EU) in Cambridge, demonstrating an in-network high-performance fault tolerant solution for distributed in-memory compute, at latencies that are orders-of-magnitude lower than any currently existing solution.
September 23, 2018 • 3 min read Data
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