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<i class="" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:14px">Soaring demand for increased storage performance at lower cost is raising the bar for design & innovation within the industry. Developers are innovating with new materials and more customer-focused features
at the device level, but even more innovation is occurring at the memory level. With an increasing number of data-intensive applications becoming SSD-friendly, storage designers have been faced with significant overhead due to the persistence of a number
of legacy protocols and an entrenched software stack. NAND technology continues to push the limits of density, scaling, latency reduction and performance, innovation in flash chips, next gen storage protocols, and supportive software is helping solid state
storage break through long-defiant bottlenecks. However applications like machine learning, artificial intelligence and health sciences are driving new domain specific architectures that present challenges for traditional hardware and software stack for flash.
We will cover latest advances by Samsung and summarize some of the key research areas for new flash architectures.</i></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><b class="">Date and Time</b> Tuesday, October 24, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM</span></div>
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</span> </b>32-G882 (Hewlett Room</span><span class="" style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial" class="">, Ray and Maria Stata Center)</font></span></div>
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</span> </b>Registration required on <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/samsung-tech-talk-flash-architecture-for-the-datacenter-tickets-38851820842" class="">Eventbrite</a></font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span class="" style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">Speaker</b><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span> Vijay Balakrishnan, Director, Memory Solutions Lab, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.</font></span></div>
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