Seagate, Western Digital outline progress on RISC-V designs | Carol Sliwa, SearchStorage.TechTarget.com

Also at this week’s virtual RISC-V Summit, Western Digital showed off a flash controller and prototype solid-state drive (SSD) board that use its open source RISC-V-enabled SweRV cores. The company did not disclose product plans, but it is a long-time RISC-V proponent. Western Digital announced in 2017 that it planned to transition more than one billon cores per year to RISC-V to drive momentum of open source processors for data center and edge computing. “RISC-V is an open standard, and using it in HDDs can provide advanced processing technology at little extra cost to the HDD company — and, thus, to the end user,” said Tom Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates. He noted that practical uses are starting to emerge for RISC-V from storage to AI.   Read the full article[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]]]>