NAND Flash Shipments Growth Slows in 2Q24, Revenue Up 14% Driven by AI SSD Demand, Says TrendForce
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Frexxia@reddit
What on earth is an AI SSD?
gumol@reddit
AI SSD demand = demand for SSDs by AI companies
Strazdas1@reddit
unless they meant AI in SSD memory controllers, which is the dystopian option.
Head_of_Lettuce@reddit
I assume it’s an SSD used in AI applications, not that it’s an SSD with some kind of built in AI technology.
Strazdas1@reddit
AI driven caching to hide the problems with QLC, i can totally see that.
rocketjetz@reddit
You need a large SSD pool to do LLM machine learning training.
And AI is coming to SSD controllers as we speak. It's already in enterprise level. It's coming to consumer SSD.
You realize that SSD have a Flash Memory Controller in them? The firmware is the software that runs on the that controller.
https://phisonblog.com/phison-custom-ssd-firmware-development-powers-products-from-games-to-enterprise-solutions/
Sopel97@reddit
the ones gigabyte brands as such have very high write endurance
Wrong-Quail-8303@reddit
AIs need insane amounts of memory, which is expensive.
You can use a good SSD as memory (e.g. windows page file).
You also need to rapidly load huge multi terabyte models into that memory quickly, where again SSDs are very useful. It's an excellent use-case for Gen5 SSD bandwidth.
dj_antares@reddit
SSD with bots peeping on your data.
CharlesPostelwaite@reddit
An SSD with Marketing attached to it