Machine learning workloads have an insatiable appetite for DRAM capacity. Flash memory is cheaper per gigabyte of capacity than DRAM. Could it offer a way out?

SK hynix and Sandisk showed their new DRAM & NAND products and announced the initial HBF specification and roadmap at the 2026 FMS Conference.

Machine learning applications demand ever more memory capacity and bandwidth. Samsung responded by fabricating their HBM base dies on a logic node, which opens up more…