> What many do not realize is that the company ships over 1 billion processor cores within its products each year and is moving toward 2 billion per year.
> Last year, Western Digital made the amazing claim that they will transition their consumption of silicon over to RISC-V, putting one Billion RISC-V cores per year into the marketplace.
The billion cores mark for RISC-V will be somewhere around the middle of 2020 thanks to Western Digital and Microsemi.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2017/12/06/weste...
> What many do not realize is that the company ships over 1 billion processor cores within its products each year and is moving toward 2 billion per year.
https://hackaday.com/2019/02/13/western-digital-releases-the...
> Last year, Western Digital made the amazing claim that they will transition their consumption of silicon over to RISC-V, putting one Billion RISC-V cores per year into the marketplace.
https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/mi-v-embedded-ec...