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.

Benny Ni, Vice President of Sales for Solidigm Greater Asia Region, delivered a keynote speech titled“Accelerate Storage Innovation, Embrace the AI Era”at the GMIF2024 Innovation Summit. Benny Ni provided a detailed account of Solidigm's endeavors in promoting storage innovation through its high-density QLC NAND technology to support the rapid development of AI technology. As a global leading storage solutions provider, Solidigm is committed to providing efficient storage solutions for AI applications, backed by its profound technical expertise and strong innovation capabilities.

Benny Ni first introduced Solidigm’s background. Rooted in decades of storage innovation experience from Intel and SK hynix, Solidigm has shaped its unique technological advantages, expertise, and user insights. Dedicated to becoming a leading provider in the solid-state storage sector, Solidigm makes pushes to unlock the unlimited potential of data and thus promote the development and progress of humankind. With its strong technical background and industry experience, Solidigm has now become one of the major suppliers of non-volatile storage solutions.

Storage Innovation: A Core Driver in the AI Era

The synergistic development of computing power and storage capabilities is particularly important in the AI era. Benny Ni pointed out that though computing power is essential to AI systems, advancements in storage performance are just as vital. Solidigm provides end-to-end storage solutions, offering comprehensive support to customers in terms of power consumption, performance, and space utilization. Efficient storage not only ensures outstanding GPU computing performance but also improves the overall efficiency of AI systems by optimizing storage paths.

Solidigm’s long-term investment in QLC NAND technology enables it to quickly respond to market demands and maintain a leading position in high-capacity storage.

Storage Requirements for AI Workloads

In AI applications, different stages of data processing necessitate diversified storage requirements. Benny Ni provided a detailed analysis of the characteristics of AI workloads, highlighting the varying storage requirements at each stage, from data ingestion, preprocessing, training, and inference to archiving. For example, during the AI model training phase, high-performance storage is needed to support the efficient operation of GPUs, while during the data archiving phase, the need for large-capacity storage becomes more apparent.

Solidigm’s SSD product line covers a range of options from high-performance to high-capacity, tailored to meet the storage needs at different stages of AI applications, aiming to ensure that every step of data processing is efficient and stable.

SSD Technical Advantages and Future Outlook

In his speech, Benny Ni also introduced Solidigm’s latest PCIe Gen5 SSD series products, including the D7-PS1010 and D7-PS1030, available in both U.2 and E3.S form factors. These products demonstrate excellent performance and power efficiency, optimized specifically for AI workloads. As AI large models continue to grow in scale, the scalability and efficiency of storage systems become increasingly important. Solidigm’s innovative solid-state storage technology provides more efficient and economical storage solutions for AI and big data applications.

Benny Ni also mentioned that Solidigm will launch higher capacity SSD products in the future, such as 122 TB and even larger capacity SSDs, providing stronger support for AI storage and further expanding its applications in data centers and AI computing.

Driving Innovation and Collaboration in the Storage Industry

Solidigm is actively collaborating on system-level optimizations while driving hardware technology. Benny Ni expressed that Solidigm aims to continue advancing innovation in AI storage by closely collaborating with Chinese customers and partners. Through more efficient storage solutions, Solidigm provides a robust foundation for global AI applications, empowering customers to gain a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving AI era.

Benny Ni received the "Outstanding AI Storage Application Award" 

on behalf of Solidigm at GMIF2024

Conclusion

Benny Ni concluded that, “Our goal is to build a new paradigm for solid-state storage, and Solidigm will continue to lead the transformation of the storage industry through technological innovation and product strength.” Against the backdrop of rapid development of AI, the importance of storage solutions becomes increasingly prominent. Solidigm is committed to working hand in hand with partners to drive transformation and innovation in AI storage, contributing to the advancement of the industry.