Sandisk and SK Hynix Publish First Open High Bandwidth Flash Standard

Sandisk and SK hynix have published the first open technical specification for High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) through the Open Compute Project, creating a new memory tier between High Bandwidth Memory and traditional SSD storage for AI inference systems. The specification supports capacities up to 512GB using 8-high and 16-high NAND stacks, with bandwidth tiers from about 0.4TB/s to 3.0TB/s, and uses the UCIe chiplet interface for integration with CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators. Google and Tenstorrent participated in the standardization effort, but commercial products and independent benchmarks are still missing.

BrianFagioli writes: Sandisk and SK hynix have published the first open technical specification for High Bandwidth Flash HBF through the Open Compute Project. HBF is designed to create a new memory tier between High Bandwidth Memory and traditional SSD storage, giving AI inference systems more near compute capacity without relying entirely on expensive HBM. The specification supports capacities up to 512GB using 8-high and 16-high NAND stacks, with bandwidth tiers ranging from about 0.4TB per second to 3.0TB per second. It also uses the UCIe chiplet interface, which could make HBF easier to integrate with CPUs, GPUs, and other accelerators. Google and Tenstorrent participated in the standardization effort, but commercial products and independent benchmarks are still missing. Read more of this story https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/04/0511224/sandisk-and-sk-hynix-publish-first-open-high-bandwidth-flash-standard?utm source=rss1.0moreanon&utm medium=feed at Slashdot.