SANTA CLARA, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), a global data storage technology and solutions leader, today announced that it has received the Flash Memory Summit 'Best of Show' award for the company's BiCS4 technology, the world's first 3D NAND technology with 96 layers of vertical storage capability. The honor, received in the "Technology" category, recognizes innovations that will "change the way flash memory works and is used in products." The recipients of this award are distinguished by significant differentiation of their intellectual property and patents from competing technologies in the flash memory industry. "Our successful development of the world's first 96-layer 3D NAND technology underscores Western Digital's ongoing leadership in NAND flash and is a major milestone for continued NAND flash scaling," said Jian Chen, senior vice president of memory technology at Western Digital.