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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Thursday November 30 2017, @11:02AM (2 children)
How WD Plans to Lead Major Changeover to RISC-V Processing [eweek.com]
RISC-V Spins into Drives, AI [eetimes.com]
Big Tech Players Start To Adopt The RISC-V Chip Architecture [tomshardware.com]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 30 2017, @12:58PM
So, I'm lazy, but... assuming they are transitioning away from ARM? Watch this space: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SFTBY?ltr=1 [yahoo.com] for a reaction to the news.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:48PM
in the third link it said that nvidia will be moving to risk for their GPU microcontrollers. it's going to feel weird moving to all nvidia, assuming they helped more with nouveau...