Through continuous technological innovation in the storage field, Western Digital is helping the automotive industry create a more brilliant future.
Innovative storage at the Automotive Digital Transformation Conference
Recently, as an industry feast in the field of smart cars, the 2023 Second Automotive Digital Transformation Conference opened in Shanghai.
This Automotive Digital Transformation Conference not only gathered top experts, business leaders and innovators from the global automotive industry to conduct heated discussions around innovative technologies in the field of smart cars, but also presented various innovative, intelligent and efficient travel solutions in the conference exhibition area. , is also a highlight of this conference.
As a leader in global data infrastructure and a contributor to intelligent digital transformation, Western Digital also presented a series of storage innovations in automotive applications at this conference and attracted many guests to visit and experience it.
Western Digital continues to lead innovation in the storage field
In the field of data storage, Western Digital not only has a long history and rich industry experience, but also has two major business segments and advanced technologies, NAND flash memory and HDD. It covers a full line of multi-scenario products in various industry application scenarios, and can fully meet the diverse needs of customers from different fields for storage capacity, performance, cost and reliability.
For the automobile industry, which is experiencing the "new four modernizations" of electrification, networking, intelligence, and sharing, this is an era of innovative development, turbulence, and opportunities and challenges. With the vigorous development of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, 5G, and Internet of Vehicles, smart cars are becoming more and more like smart mobile terminals that integrate many innovative technologies, full of unlimited imagination and possibilities. Whether it is autonomous computers, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), AI databases, data recorders, high-definition 3D maps, enhanced infotainment systems, V2X communications... all of this is inseparable from on-board data storage. During the user's use of the car, massive amounts of data will continue to be generated. Western Digital's rich automotive-grade products and solutions are designed for this purpose.
From NAND to HDD, from automobiles to cloud, through continuous innovation in the storage field, Western Digital has a complete storage product portfolio that can provide comprehensive support for current and future automotive systems. For a variety of automotive use cases and data center solutions, Western Digital provides embedded edge storage and removable storage to capture and analyze the vast amounts of data collected from vehicles. At this Automotive Digital Transformation Conference, Western Digital demonstrated a variety of automotive storage embedded flash memory solutions to the guests, including iNAND AT EM132, iNAND AT EM122, iNAND AT EU312, iNAND AT EN610, etc.
Designed for the connected and autonomous vehicle market
The automotive storage solution presented by Western Digital at this conference is specially designed for the connected and autonomous vehicle market and can meet the higher-level storage needs of automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and first-tier manufacturers for smart vehicles. Help it better cope with the storage challenges brought by the diverse applications of smart cars.
As automotive-grade storage products, Western Digital's products on display have undergone rigorous testing and have excellent performance in terms of reliability, performance, and high quality. Only in this way can we ensure the high reliability necessary for automotive safety applications.
1. Reliability: Automotive-specific feature sets and complete vertical integration of design, manufacturing, assembly and testing to meet the reliability requirements of automotive applications;
2. Performance: End-to-end storage solutions provide sophisticated write, read and erase performance for capturing massive amounts of data from the car to the cloud for analysis;
3. High quality: Adopt a zero-defect strategy to meet the increasingly demanding requirements of the automotive industry, thereby ensuring stability and high quality.
For example, Western Digital iNAND AT EM132 embedded flash drive uses 64-layer 3D NAND TLC flash memory technology. Its product life cycle exceeds 2D NAND. It has passed IATF16949 certification, complies with AEC-Q100 standards, and complies with ISO26262 NAND flash memory security mechanism guidelines. Includes rich automotive features designed for intensive automotive workloads to meet changing application requirements and growing capacity needs.
Western Digital iNAND AT EM122 e.MMC embedded flash drive is based on the e.MMC 5.1 standard and can provide different capacity specifications from 8GB to 64GB. It is suitable for automotive grade 2 and 3 temperature ranges and has enhanced MLC and advanced error correction. Features such as high-reliability design, as well as advanced memory management firmware functions such as ECC, wear leveling, bad block management, etc., while also supporting configurable boot and RPMB partitioning and automotive-specific feature sets.
Western Digital iNAND AT EU312 UFS embedded flash drive adopts UFS 2.1 interface, which can provide high capacity and stronger performance than previous e.MMC-based products, further enriching Western Digital's high-quality, high-durability automotive storage solutions , which can meet the diverse system application requirements for advanced automotive systems and autonomous vehicles such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).
As a flash drive with both top performance and ultra-large capacity, Western Digital iNAND AT EN610 uses 96-layer 3D NAND TLC flash memory technology, which can provide ultra-high capacities from 128GB to 1TB according to customer needs, truly achieving TB in storage capacity. class. The chip also provides mainstream interfaces such as PCle Gen4x4 and NVMe 1.4, which can ensure fast transmission rates and low latency in applications.
Technological innovation helps cars create smart travel experiences
Wen Fang, senior sales director of the Intelligent Terminal Products Division of Western Digital in China, said that Western Digital has always attached great importance to the Chinese market, and has relied on its advantages in the two mainstream storage technologies of NAND flash memory and HDD to develop products through industrial grade and commercial products. Rich solutions such as regulation level and home interconnection level help Chinese users from enterprise level, cloud data center, smart video, IoT, automobile and other industries to more easily and calmly cope with the challenges brought by digitalization and intelligentization process to storage. challenges.
On the road to digital transformation of automobiles into the future, Western Digital is naturally indispensable. In order to promote the digital transformation of the automotive industry, Western Digital will continue to devote itself to the research and development of storage technology and product innovation, and continue to increase investment in production capacity in the Chinese market.
In order to create a smarter and higher-quality travel experience and accelerate the seamless connection between innovative technologies and business standards, Western Digital will also work with many industry partners to leverage its significant technical advantages in flash memory and related products through continuous Continuous technological and product innovation continues to empower the automotive industry in the field of data storage, laying a solid digital foundation for the future development of smart cars, and jointly ushering in an unprecedented era of smart driving.
