Beyond AI Compute: The Future of High-Capacity Storage

Session Overview

Artificial intelligence is driving explosive growth in data across AI training, inference, media production, enterprise applications, and digital services. While much of the industry's attention has focused on GPUs and high-performance computing, the long-term success of AI depends just as much on the ability to efficiently store, protect, and manage massive volumes of data.

As AI adoption accelerates, demand for HBM, SSD, and hard disk drives continues to grow. Like semiconductor manufacturing, expanding HDD production capacity requires years of investment and cannot quickly keep pace with market demand. As a result, increasing storage capacity through higher areal density has become one of the most practical and sustainable ways to address future storage requirements.

This session explores how Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) is enabling the next generation of high-capacity hard drives by significantly increasing recording density while maximizing existing manufacturing infrastructure. We'll also discuss how next-generation storage platforms built for these drives support AI data lakes, large-scale inference, media and entertainment workflows, and enterprise storage environments.

Attendees will gain insight into why high-capacity storage is becoming a strategic foundation for AI infrastructure — not only for storing data, but also for enabling scalable, cost-effective, and sustainable AI deployment.