Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a Year
From the headline, I would guess WD is putting a user accessible CPU in each of their disk drives, idea being that if you have a CPU living close to the drive, then e.g. map+reduce workloads can be more efficiently executed.  Instead of going with ARM or Intel, I guess the CPU's are using some less famous architecture called RISC-V.<p>Then I read the article, and the article is so full of buzzwords and genericisms that after reading the whole thing, I don't know if this guess is correct.