Western Digital to Exhibit at COMPUTEX 2026: AI Runs on Data, Not Just Compute

Western Digital (Nasdaq: WDC), a provider of storage infrastructure for the AI-driven data economy, today announced its participation in COMPUTEX 2026. Through the event, WD will encourage the industry to understand that AI infrastructure is not just a compute system, but essentially a data system. From training and inference to agentic AI and physical AI, all AI workloads continuously generate data that accumulates, grows, and expands over time. This trend is fundamentally changing how enterprises design AI infrastructure at scale.

These changes present AI developers with the core challenge of managing exponentially growing data while maintaining performance and economic efficiency in large-scale environments. How data is managed determines whether AI creates sustainable business value or becomes an unsustainable cost factor. At COMPUTEX, WD will address this reality through a keynote at a forum session, booth exhibits, and new storage innovations.

Forum Session: "Reinventing Storage for AI at Scale"

Speaker: Ahmed Shihab, Chief Product Officer, WD

Date & Time: Thursday, June 4, 2026, 11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Venue: TaiNEX 2, Room 701

WD's Chief Product Officer, Ahmed Shihab, will discuss why AI infrastructure can no longer be designed with a focus on compute performance, and why sustained data growth, tiered architectures, and infrastructure economics are becoming the primary constraints in AI at scale.

John Chen, Vice President at TRENDFOCUS, stated, "The shift to AI-driven workloads demands higher throughput, greater capacity, and improved reliability from storage systems across multiple tiers. WD's advancements in HDD and platform technology demonstrate the innovation needed to support data-intensive AI in large-scale environments."

Please visit the WD booth at COMPUTEX 2026

Date: Tuesday, June 2 - Friday, June 5, 2026
Location: Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 2, 4F, Booth #R1308

WD's exhibit will showcase this data-centric architecture, demonstrating how storage supports large-scale AI systems. Visitors can see WD's Ultrastar® HDD high-capacity storage portfolio, spanning UltraSMR, ePMR, and HAMR. The company will also introduce two industry-first advanced HDD innovations: high-bandwidth drive technology and dual pivot technology. These technologies are expected to quadruple HDD throughput while maintaining the relative I/O performance per terabyte that customers currently utilize. This reduces the need to increase SSD deployment or redesign services as capacity expands.

Platform solutions introduced by WD include the Ultrastar Data Series JBOD, OpenFlex® EBOF, and RapidFlex® NVMe-oF™ controllers. These solutions help cloud, neo-cloud, and HPC companies accelerate deployment without the need for expensive infrastructure design by optimizing capacity and performance, reducing costs, and shortening time to value. WD will also exhibit the new Ultrastar Data 3000 series JBOD, which provides the scalable capacity needed for AI data growth. Featuring ArcticFlow™ multi-zone cooling technology and patented IsoVibe™ vibration isolation technology, the Ultrastar Data 3000 series optimizes performance and reliability by reducing drive return rates by up to 62%¹ in platforms designed for stable operation in large-scale environments. Furthermore, the 3000 series is equipped with 12 ports supporting 24Gb/s SAS 4 host connectivity, proactively addressing the bandwidth demands of increasing capacity and workload.

WD will also showcase tiered storage solutions, including architectures based on Ceph and those co-developed with IBM® Storage Scale and XTAO. These solutions optimize performance and economics for each stage of the AI data lifecycle, helping to increase GPU efficiency and reduce costs in large-scale environments through a tiered, system-level architecture.

Additionally, the globally recognized WD Color portfolio—WD Gold®, WD Red®, and WD Purple®—will be on display, along with the revamped G-DRIVE® family of brands for external storage solutions for content creators.

With these innovations, WD provides a critical foundational layer for AI infrastructure, enabling data retention, movement, and scalability across various environments.

Stefan Mandl, Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing at WD, said, "COMPUTEX is an excellent opportunity to connect with AI leaders and developers from around the world at a critical turning point for the industry. AI is driving data growth at a scale and speed the industry has never experienced before. Organizations that view AI as a data system will be the ones to build AI that can scale with long-term economics and efficiency. WD provides the durable, scalable, and economically efficient data infrastructure foundation needed to support AI systems for the long term."

At WD booth #R1308, you can interact with our team and exhibiting partners and see demonstrations of our solutions. We will also show you how to scale your AI data systems efficiently, economically, and with long-term reliability.

About WD

Western Digital (WD) builds the storage infrastructure that underpins certainty in the AI-driven data economy. At the forefront of innovation, we partner with the world's leading hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and enterprises to deliver proven, reliable storage solutions at scale. With a corporate culture that emphasizes innovation and execution, WD helps customers securely store, protect, and utilize data around the world. For more information, visit WD's LinkedIn or the official WD website.

¹ Based on observed and projected drive return rate data in comparison to generations without these features. Does not change product specifications or warranty.

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