Western Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: WDC), the storage foundation of the AI-driven data economy, has announced its participation at Computex 2026, highlighting the growing importance of data systems in AI infrastructure.

The company said that AI infrastructure should be viewed not only as a compute system but also as a data system. According to Western Digital, every AI workload, including training, inference, agentic AI, and physical AI, continuously generates data that persists and expands over time. As a result, organizations are facing increasing challenges in managing exponential data growth while maintaining performance and cost efficiency.

At Computex 2026, Western Digital is addressing these challenges through a keynote session, live demonstrations, and new storage innovations designed to support AI at scale.

Ahmed Shihab, Chief Product Officer at Western Digital, will present a forum session titled “Reinventing Storage for AI at Scale” on June 4, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 11:25 AM at TaiNex 2, Room 701.

During the session, Shihab will discuss why AI infrastructure can no longer be designed primarily around compute performance. He will also explain how persistent data growth, tiered architectures, and infrastructure economics are becoming critical considerations for organizations deploying AI at scale.

“The shift toward AI-driven workloads is placing new demands on storage systems, requiring higher throughput, greater capacity, and improved reliability across multiple tiers,” said John Chen, Vice President at TRENDFOCUS. “WD’s advancements in HDD and platform technologies reflect the kinds of innovations needed to support increasingly data-intensive AI environments at scale.”

Meanwhile, visitors can explore Western Digital’s solutions at Booth #R1308, located on the 4th Floor of Hall 2 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center from June 2 to June 5.

The exhibit will feature Western Digital’s Ultrastar HDD high-capacity storage portfolio, including UltraSMR, ePMR, and HAMR technologies. The company will also showcase two advanced HDD innovations, High Bandwidth Drive Technology and Dual Pivot Drive Technology. Together, these technologies are projected to deliver up to four times higher HDD throughput while maintaining the relative I/O per terabyte rate currently available to customers. This approach is intended to reduce the need for increased SSD deployment or major service rearchitecting as storage capacity expands.

In addition, Western Digital will highlight platform solutions such as the Ultrastar Data Series JBODs, OpenFlex EBOF, and RapidFlex NVMe-oF controller. These solutions are designed to help cloud, neo cloud, and high-performance computing (HPC) organizations optimize capacity and performance while reducing costs and accelerating time to value.

The company is also introducing its new Ultrastar Data 3000 series JBODs. The platform is designed to support growing AI data requirements and incorporates ArcticFlow multizone cooling and IsoVibe vibration isolation technologies. According to Western Digital, these innovations can reduce drive return rates by up to 62 percent while enhancing overall reliability and performance. Furthermore, the system offers 12 ports of 24 Gb/s SAS 4 host connectivity to address increasing bandwidth requirements.

Western Digital will also demonstrate tiered storage solutions based on Ceph, as well as architectures developed with IBM Storage Scale and XTAO. These solutions aim to align performance and economics with different stages of the AI data lifecycle, helping organizations improve GPU utilization while lowering infrastructure costs.

Additionally, attendees will be able to view the company’s WD Color portfolio, including WD Gold, WD Red, and WD Purple products. The rebranded G-DRIVE family of external storage solutions for content creators will also be on display.

“Computex is a great opportunity to connect with AI leaders and builders from around the world at a pivotal moment for the industry,” said Stefan Mandl, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Western Digital. “AI is driving data growth at a scale and pace the industry has never seen before, and the organizations that recognize AI as a data system are the ones that will build AI that scales economically and efficiently over the long term. WD provides the durable, scalable and economically efficient data infrastructure foundation required to support AI systems over the long term.”

Through its latest HDD innovations, storage platforms, and tiered architecture solutions, Western Digital aims to strengthen its role as a foundational layer of AI infrastructure, supporting the persistence, movement, and scalability of data across increasingly complex AI environments. Visitors can meet the team at Booth #R1308 to explore how Western Digital is helping organizations scale AI data systems efficiently and economically.

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