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WDC Analyst Meeting Update; reiterating the 10x cost differential between HDD and Flash

Western Digital Corporation, also known as WDC, held its investor meeting yesterday.  We highlight four important disclosures: (a) it expects HDD to survive, despite flash’s advantages, (b) WDC’s plans to use RISC and launch a new memory interface, (c) an update on current business trends, and (d) the company’s plans… Read More »WDC Analyst Meeting Update; reiterating the 10x cost differential between HDD and Flash

Huawei Analyst Meeting Recap – a Big Focus on Artificial Intelligence and a Downplay of 5G

Eric Xu, Rotating Deputy Chairman of Huawei addressing audience questions at the Huawei Analyst Summit 2018 ​The main theme of the the Huawei HAS 2018 meeting keynotes was Artificial Intelligence and, secondarily, nearly ubiquitous networks connections across the world.  Huawei expects 86% of enterprises to have experimented with AI by… Read More »Huawei Analyst Meeting Recap – a Big Focus on Artificial Intelligence and a Downplay of 5G

OCP Summit 2018 – Disaggregation Theme Dominates

The OCP Summit 2018 hit record attendance and we can can summarize the theme as that of continued disaggregation of network/server functions.  Examples of demonstrations, presentations and proposals associated with disaggregation are as follows: Flash/SSD.  Project Denali was presented by Microsoft.  The idea is it separates SSD controller functions from… Read More »OCP Summit 2018 – Disaggregation Theme Dominates