At its recent Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital previewed two technologies in development to increase HDD throughput: high bandwidth drive technology (HBDT) and dual pivot technology (DPT).

Forward-looking: Western Digital remains one of the world's largest hard drive manufacturers, although it trails Seagate in adopting the latest recording technologies. However, the company has ...

Western Digital (WDC) unveiled a pathway today to build HAMR HDDs with 100TB+ capacity by 2029, while its 40TB UltraSMR ePMR HDD is currently undergoing customer qualifications and will be the highest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. For several years I have written a series of articles outlining my projections for various digital storage and non-volatile memory ...

Forward-looking: Western Digital is bringing fresh momentum to an aging storage category with two ambitious technologies aimed at redefining mechanical hard drive performance limits. The company's new ...

Ethiopia is accelerating efforts to expand Artificial Intelligence (AI) development and fast track digitalization through domestic capacity, according to sector leaders.Belete Esubalew, CEO of ...