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Title    Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V
Date    Thursday November 30 2017, @09:35AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the whatever-will-they-do-with-the-one-billion-leftover-apples? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/11/30/0229222

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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Links
  1. "RamiK" - https://soylentnews.org/~RamiK/
  2. "press release" - https://www.wdc.com/about-wd/newsroom/press-room/2017-11-28-western-digital-to-accelerate-the-future-of-next-generation-computing-architectures-for-big-data-and-fast-data-environments.html
  3. "Western Digital Corp." - https://www.wdc.com/
  4. "7th RISC-V Workshop" - https://riscv.org/2017/10/7th-risc-v-workshop-showcases-breadth-risc-v-ecosystem-45-sessions-featuring-technology-leaders/
  5. "Martin Fink" - https://www.wdc.com/en-um/about-wd/corporate-officers/corp-bios.html
  6. "RISC-V" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
  7. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=23585
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