The Third GMIF2024 Innovation Summit was successfully held at the Renaissance Shenzhen Bay Hotel in recent days. The event brought together senior executives and industry experts from renowned domestic and international companies, including the School of Integrated Circuits at Peking University, Micron, Western Digital, Solidigm, Arm, UNISOC, Intel, iFlytek, Rockchip, Silicon Motion, BIWIN, Victory Giant, Allwinner, InnoGrit, Maxio, QUANXING, Montage, Applied Materials (AMAT), Lam Research, DISCO, Skyverse, Loongson Technology, and many others. The gathering saw industry leaders engage in discussions on global storage innovation and ecosystem collaboration for shared growth in the AI era. During the summit, the GMIF2024 Annual Awards were officially unveiled, and a total of 38 key enterprises from across the industry supply chain had been honored for their outstanding contributions.

At the Third GMIF2024 Innovation Summit, Prasad Alluri, the Vice President and General Manager of Client Storage for Micron’s Storage Business Unit, delivered a keynote speech titled “Data is at the heart of AI: Micron memory & storage are fueling the AI revolution!” Mr. Alluri provided an in-depth analysis of AI’s profound impact on the storage industry and shared Micron’s crucial role in driving industry transformation, particularly in memory and storage innovations empowered by AI.

AI is Everywhere: From Autonomous Driving, Healthcare, and Smart Manufacturing to Its Deep Integration into Everyday Life

AI’s influence is now so pervasive that it’s interwoven into the very fabric of our existence from personal life to enterprise operations. Micron’s extensive experience with AI spans diverse applications, from promoting environmental sustainability in air and water to identifying intricate challenges in wafer substrates. “For instance, benefiting from AI technology, Micron’s intelligent manufacturing platform demonstrates excellent performance in optimizing wafer image analysis. Statistics show that 23 million wafer images can be processed weekly, and the product scrap rate has been reduced by 22%, significantly improving production efficiency. This is not just a technological innovation; it is a real-world example of AI’s successful implementation in the industrial sector,” Prasad Alluri shared 

Industries such as healthcare and autonomous driving are also accelerating the introduction of AI technology. From enhancing diagnostic precision in mammography and accelerating new drug discoveries to the popularization of self-driving cars, AI has become a key driver for boosting efficiency and innovation across various industries. Behind all these advancements, the support of memory and storage technologies is of vital importance.

Memory and Storage: The Core Engines of AI Development

The booming development of AI has positioned memory and storage technology as the core engines that unlock its full potential. Micron’s technological innovations in memory and storage are providing powerful support for the growing computing demands. For example, Micron was the first to introduce 128GB RDIMMs based on single 32Gb chips to the market. Compared to similar RDIMMs based on 3DS TSV, it offers larger capacity, lower power consumption, and lower latency for AI workloads, significantly improving AI training and inference performance.

Prasad Alluri stated that based on Micron’s advanced DRAM and high-performance SSD solutions, AI model training and inference can achieve more efficient and faster data processing. Especially in the field of AI inference, the improvement in memory capacity is crucial for supporting large-scale parallel processing and real-time responses.

From Data Centers to Edge Devices: Comprehensive Expansion of AI Applications

AI applications are not limited to data centers; their influence is rapidly expanding to edge devices, PCs, smartphones, and various other terminal devices. Through innovative LPDDR5 memory and high-performance SSDs, Micron is breaking new ground in storage performance, supporting AI applications in edge computing to achieve low power consumption and high efficiency.

Prasad Alluri voiced that the rise of AI-integrated personal computers brings new possibilities for future work and lifestyles. The combination of AI with devices such as PCs, smartphones, and others enables users to carry out more intelligent and efficient computing tasks locally, becoming independent of data centers. This trend is also pushing Micron to further enhance its storage and memory solutions to accommodate the significant computing needs driven by AI.

Autonomous Driving and Smart Terminals: Storage Empowering the Future

Prasad Alluri further shared that the development of autonomous driving technology is also inseparable from the support of storage and memory. As the level of autonomous driving increases, the demand for in-vehicle storage is growing significantly. Backed by technological innovation, Micron is supporting automobile manufacturers to enhance data processing capabilities, providing stronger computing support for future autonomous vehicles.

In the same way, in the smartphone field, the integration of AI functionalities has greatly improved the intelligence level of devices. Micron’s high-performance LPDDR5 memory and UFS 4.0 storage solutions empower smartphones to support AI functions such as real-time translation and voice recognition while maintaining low power consumption and high efficiency.

Micron received the GMIF2024 “Outstanding SSD Product Breakthrough Award”

Conclusion

In the conclusion of his speech, Prasad Alluri outlined Micron’s future plans. He expressed that Micron will continue to strengthen its investment in memory and storage technologies to ensure its technological leadership in the new AI-driven era. Through continuous technological innovation and investment, Micron is driving progress in the storage and memory fields to meet the growing computing demands of AI. From data centers to edge devices, memory and storage technologies will play a key role in future AI development. With considerable efforts in promoting comprehensive technological breakthroughs, Micron will endeavor to exert a leading influence in the AI revolution and further contribute to the advancement of a new phase in the global storage industry characterized by intelligence and high performance.