FMS Then and Now: Memory and Storage Insights
What you’ll learn:
- The start of the Flash Memory Summit.
- How FMS changed to Future Memory and Storage.
- What’s up with the memory and storage markets?
It's been 20 years since the inception of the Flash Memory Summit. The event is now known as the Future of Memory and Storage, so that it can keep the FMS initials. It is at the Santa Clara Convention Center again this year, with an ever-changing mix of companies and technologies.
Jim Handy, Director General at Objective Analysis, and I have both attended FMS over the years, with Jim being a frequent keynote speaker. In the video above, we talk about how FMS has changed over the years as well as the goings-on at this year’s event, where we will both be in attendance.
Jim’s presentation at FMS 2026 is “CXL Market Now Taking Shape.” We’ve covered Compute Express Link (CXL) for a while. It’s based on PCI Express and one of its features is providing cache-coherent memory.
The changes in focus for memory and storage have been driven by the emergence of AI data centers (Fig. 1).
We also talk about the impact of the rising price of memory and storage (Fig. 2).
The growth has been across the board, from high bandwidth memory (HBM) chiplets in CPU, GPU, and NPU packages to more DRAM (Fig. 3).
If you want to find out more about memory technologies, then peruse Objective Analysis’ report on emerging memory technologies (Fig. 4).
>>Check out more of our Future of Memory and Storage 2026 coverage.
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