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Wayne Williams

‘In AI models, the real bottleneck isn’t computing power — it’s memory’: Phison CEO on 244TB SSDs, PLC NAND, why high-bandwidth flash isn’t a good idea, and why CSP profit goes hand in hand with storage capacity

Phison CEO Pua Khein Seng.

The technology industry is increasingly talking about GPUs being central to AI infrastructure, but the limiting factor whichdecides what models you can run is actually memory.

In a wide-ranging interview, Phison CEO Pua Khein Seng, who invented the world's first single-chip USB flash drive, told TechRadar Pro the focus on compute has distracted from a more basic constraint which shows up everywhere, from laptops running local inference to hyperscalers building AI data centers.

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