Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a Year

Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by ksec on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @10:22PM (#15804284)

Is this confirmed though?

Were they using ARM? ( Proberly, but may not be in everything they use ) Are they switching over from ARM? Or simply moving their inhouse controller to RISC-V?

The one time license fee were suppose to be a lot cheaper if you are shipping in billions of unit.

Because if they are switching from ARM, I think of it as ARM being lazy and not winning the battle they ought to win, purely from a business perspective.

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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by tyingq on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @10:52PM (#15804430)

See this: https://www.malwaretech.com/2015/04/hard-disk-firmware-hacki...

Not definitive for the whole product line, but at least evidence of one popular WD drive with a Marvell/ARM controller. Google "Western digital Marvell" for more...like https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/marvell-achieves-si... (over one billion WD units with Marvell/ARM chips on board)

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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by wtallis on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:38AM (#15805074)

Western Digital's SanDisk SSDs almost exclusively use Marvell controllers, too.

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