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Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V

posted by martyb on Thursday November 30 2017, @09:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the whatever-will-they-do-with-the-one-billion-leftover-apples? dept.

RamiK writes:

From a Western Digital press release:

Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) announced today at the 7th RISC-V Workshop that the company intends to lead the industry transition toward open, purpose-built compute architectures. In his keynote address, Western Digital's Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink expressed the company's commitment to [...] transitioning its own consumption of processors – over one billion cores per year – to RISC-V.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday November 30 2017, @03:46PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 30 2017, @03:46PM (#603470) Journal

    Maybe we do already and we just don't know it. Or maybe that's what they want you to think. Or maybe Obama's birth certificate was signed using a weak cryptographic key. Or maybe the aliens are behind it.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday November 30 2017, @06:20PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday November 30 2017, @06:20PM (#603561)

    > birth certificate was signed using a weak cryptographic key

    New geek idea: The same way that nobles and Chinese people used to seal or sign stuff with custom stamps, I'm gonna get stamps made with the customer's Public Key to sign official papers, checks and letters.
    Patent pending.