For anyone tracking enterprise infrastructure, the storage landscape is moving at a breakneck pace. The explosive growth of generative AI, multi-million token context windows, and massive data-centric workloads have pushed traditional memory and storage architectures to their absolute limits.
This August, the industry converges at FMS 2026 (Future of Memory and Storage) to showcase the hardware, protocols, and architectures solving these bottlenecks. If you design, buy, or manage next-generation data center infrastructure, this year’s lineup at the Santa Clara Convention Center offers a direct look into the immediate future of the technology.
Rather than looking at distant conceptual roadmaps, FMS 2026 is heavily focused on the practical, near-term hardware developments that are actively reshaping data centers. Compute Express Link is moving rapidly from early testing into mature enterprise deployment, making CXL memory pooling and fabric architectures a central focus of the technical sessions. High-Bandwidth Memory continues to be a critical element for scaling AI pipelines, with a strong focus on high-density NAND, next-generation enterprise SSDs, and advanced DRAM solutions.
Beyond raw speed and capacity, modern infrastructure faces steep thermal and power challenges. The technical sessions this year reflect that reality, diving deep into liquid cooling for high-performance SSDs, energy-efficient storage configurations, and advanced telemetry for system-level monitoring.
The keynote lineup brings together the absolute heavyweights of the semiconductor and hardware world. On the opening day, Kioxia America and Nvidia will share the stage, with Neville Ichhaporia, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the SSD Business Unit at Kioxia America, Katsuki Matsudera, General Manager of the Memory Technical Marketing Managing Department at Kioxia, and Jason Hardy, Vice President of Storage Technology at Nvidia, detailing how they are redefining data center storage for the AI era.
Samsung Electronics will follow with an in-depth session featuring Taeksang Song, Corporate Vice President and Head of New DRAM Solution Development, and Jin-yub Lee, Executive Vice President and Head of Flash Product and Technology, discussing the DRAM and flash innovations building the foundation of modern compute.
The momentum continues with SK hynix Executive Vice President and Head of Solution Development Chunsung Kim, alongside Uksong Kang, Vice President and Head of Next Generation Product Planning, as they tackle the deployment of tiered memory in the era of agentic AI. FADU President Jihyo Lee and Sandisk Distinguished Engineer of SSD Architecture Ross Stenfort will present their visions for ultra-high efficiency in hyperscale environments, while Micron Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Core Data Center Business Unit Jeremy Werner will break down how AI manages memory in the inference era.
Additional notable sessions feature industry voices like Neo Semiconductor Founder and Chief Executive Officer Andy Hsu detailing new AI memory architectures, and Longsys Chief Scientific Officer Jian Chen detailing intelligence at the edge.
For engineers and builders, FMS 2026 is the ultimate hands-on environment. It is the single best venue to examine the engineering behind modern drives, discuss architectures with the teams who build them, and get a clear picture of where the enterprise storage industry is heading over the next few years.
Event Details and Registration
FMS 2026 takes place August 4 – 6, 2026, at the Santa Clara Convention Center and Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California.
SemiWiki readers can access an exclusive 15% percent discount on registration passes by using the promo code SEMIWIKI at checkout. You can book your passes directly through the registration link: https://www.terrapinn.com/FMS/SemiWiki/Tickets
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