High Bandwidth Flash: Bridging the Gap Between Expensive HBM & Flash Memory
At the recent FMS 2026, SK hynix and SanDisk announced the first open technical specification for High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), formalizing a new memory category that sits between high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and solid-state drives.
FMS 2026: AI Moving Boundaries Between Memory & Storage
The recent FMS 2026 conference in Santa Clara, once organized around flash storage, now functions as an AI memory-and-data-infrastructure conference, confirming a shift that has been building over several product cycles. It’s no wonder the event changed its name from “Flash Memory Summit” to “Future of Memory and Storage.”
Dell & KIOXIA Bring 9.8PB in 2U to ObjectScale
Dell Technologies and KIOXIA have paired the KIOXIA LC9 series 245.76TB NVMe SSD with the Dell PowerEdge R7725 server running Dell ObjectScale software, creating a 2U storage node with 9.83PB of raw flash capacity.
This makes ObjectScale the first object storage platform to qualify KIOXIA’s 245.76TB drive, which KIOXIA introduced in July 2025 as the industry’s highest-capacity NVMe SSD.
Memory & NAND Flash Crisis: May 2026 Update
What began as an AI-driven reallocation of manufacturing capacity toward HBM has compounded through consecutive quarters of record-breaking price increases, affecting enterprise IT budgets, consumer device pricing, and cloud infrastructure spending in equal measure.
Research Note: Kioxia’s Open Source AiSAQ ANN Search
Today, Kioxia announced the open-source release of All-in-Storage ANNS with Product Quantization (AiSAQ), an approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) technology optimized for SSD-based storage. AiSAQ enables large-scale retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workloads by offloading vector data from DRAM to SSDs, significantly reducing memory requirements.