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

Accepted submission by RamiK at 2017-11-29 02:23:44
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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])


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