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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   
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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• Re:Congratulations RISC-VRe:Congratulations RISC-V (Score: 3, Insightful) by driverless on Friday December 01 2017, @12:49AM (1 child)

  by driverless (4770) on Friday December 01 2017, @12:49AM (#603748)

  Real industry adoption, by a major player, doing mission-critical work in their core products. Great stuff.

  Real press release, by a major player currently renegotiating their Arm license. Commercially astute stuff.

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• Re:Congratulations RISC-V(Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday December 01 2017, @10:34AM

  by Wootery (2341) on Friday December 01 2017, @10:34AM (#603850)

  Fair points, but did OpenRISC ever see this kind of success?

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