NAND Insider Newsletter: February 4, 2025

Every week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers. Below is a excerpt from this week’s, February 4, 2025.
NAND Insider Newsletter: January 21, 2025

Every week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers. Below is an excerpt from this week’s.
Research Note: UALink Consortium Expands Board, adds Apple, Alibaba Cloud & Synopsys

The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink), an industry organization taking a collaborative approach to advance high-speed interconnect standards for next-generation AI workloads, announced an expansion to its Board of Directors, welcoming Alibaba Cloud, Apple, and Synopsys – joining existing member companies like AMD, AWS, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta, and Microsoft.
Quick Take: Apple’s OpenELM Small Language Model

Apple this week unveiled its OpenELM, a set of small AI language models designed to run on local devices like smartphones rather than rely on cloud-based data centers. This reflects a growing trend toward smaller, more efficient AI models that can operate on consumer devices without significant computational resources.