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NVIDIA and SK Hynix target 100M IOPS to bypass the memory wall

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NVIDIA and SK Hynix are developing Storage Next, an AI SSD targeting 100 million IOPS to feed model weights faster than HBM allows.

Reported metric: 100M IOPS

Reporting date: 2025-12-17 (not necessarily the event date)

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NVIDIA and SK Hynix target 100M IOPS to bypass the memory wall
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Reporting date: 2025-12-17
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-17-storage-next-100m-iops
Claim: NVIDIA and SK Hynix are developing Storage Next, an AI SSD targeting 100 million IOPS to feed model weights faster than HBM allows.
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- Welcome to December 17, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-17-2025
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