Upcoming Gathering on Storage and Memory Innovations: 2025 Edition
The Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) conference, taking place from August 5-7, brings together the latest advancements and trends in memory and storage technology. This year's event is filled with exciting developments, from Compute Express Link (CXL) to cold-plate SSDs, UFS 4.1, chiplets, and UCIe.
One of the key highlights at FMS 2025 is the prominence of CXL as a technology enabling disaggregated memory architectures. CXL allows high-speed, coherent interconnects between CPUs, accelerators, and memory pools, making it crucial for AI and data center workloads.
Cold-plate SSDs, a new generation of liquid-cooled, hot-swappable NVMe drives, are being showcased to address thermal management challenges at high densities and performance levels. Solidigm's liquid-cooled, hot-swappable NVMe SSD even won an award, signaling innovation toward more efficient data center storage solutions.
UFS 4.1 continues to evolve as the leading interface for embedded mobile storage, supporting higher bandwidth and improved efficiency for next-generation mobile and edge devices. FMS covers a broad scope including mobile devices, wearables, and automotive applications where UFS is key.
Chiplets and UCIe are advancing modular and scalable chip architectures. UCIe allows heterogeneous integration of chiplets for improved performance and reduced costs in memory and storage subsystems. FMS 2025 includes discussions and session tracks focused on UCIe chiplet interconnects as a foundational technology for future memory-centric computing designs.
Innovative 3D memory technologies such as 3D NAND with 1000+ layers, and emerging cells (RRAM, PCM, MRAM, FeRAM) were also highlighted, promising higher densities and energy efficiency alongside novel memory hierarchy concepts.
The conference features presentations and awards recognizing technologies like hybrid bonding for memory devices, advanced SSD software, and flexible data placement, all pointing to a trend of greater integration and optimization between hardware and software layers in memory and storage.
Application domains stressed at FMS include AI/ML, cloud, hyperscalers, supercomputing, HPC solutions, automotive, wearables, and embedded systems, demonstrating broad interest in memory/storage innovation to support data-intensive and performance-critical workloads.
In summary, FMS 2025 showcases a vibrant ecosystem centered around compute-memory-storage disaggregation and integration enabled by CXL and UCIe, innovative thermal management through cold-plate SSDs, advances in embedded and mobile storage via UFS 4.1, and next-gen memory technologies aimed at overcoming traditional scaling limits. These trends collectively reflect the industry's push toward more flexible, scalable, and high-performance memory and storage systems essential for future computing paradigms.
Stay tuned for videos shot at the show, which will be posted later, and for embargoed details when the show starts. The conference will also include videos for viewing. For more information, keep an eye on our website and social media channels.
[1] FMS 2025 Official website: https://www.fmsconference.com [2] FMS 2025 Agenda: https://www.fmsconference.com/agenda [3] FMS 2025 Awards: https://www.fmsconference.com/awards [4] FMS 2025 Sponsors: https://www.fmsconference.com/sponsors [5] FMS 2025 Press Releases: https://www.fmsconference.com/press
- Data-and-cloud-computing advancements, such as CXL and UCIe technologies, are being highlighted at the FMS conference, showcasing the industry's push toward disaggregated memory architectures and integrated memory-centric computing designs for supporting high-performance data-center workloads.
- The attention on cold-plate SSDs at FMS 2025 underscores the importance of innovations in technology like these liquid-cooled, hot-swappable NVMe drives, which address thermal management challenges at high densities and performance levels essential for data center storage solutions.
