Western Digital Corp. [wdc.com] (NASDAQ: WDC) announced today [wdc.com] at the 7th RISC-V Workshop [riscv.org] 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 [wdc.com] expressed the company’s commitment to [...] transitioning its own consumption of processors – over one billion cores per year – to RISC-V [wikipedia.org].
(press release [wdc.com])