Enabling Automotive, Mobile, and Emerging End Points with Western Digital

Huibert Verhoeven, Senior Vice President, Automotive, Mobile, and Emerging (AME) at Western Digital presents new use end point demands for storage. Data is exploding in automotive, mobile, and IoT/Industrial environments and diversified storage solutions are needed. With 5G enabling literally billions of devices to be. connected in coming years, new challenges appear. One critical element is storage performance. UFS 3.0 and SmartSLC is required to meet the. performance demands of 5G endpoints. As smartphones and autonomous vehicles process data locally, they will need high-performance and high-capacity storage.