SK hynix, a leading South Korean memory chip manufacturer, unveiled its next-generation NAND storage strategy at the 2025 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose, California. This announcement underscores the company's commitment to addressing the growing demands of AI inference workloads, which require rapid and efficient data processing capabilities.
The AIN Family consists of NAND solution products optimized for performance, bandwidth and density, designed to enhance data processing speed and next generation data storage capacity, SK hynix said.
AIN P (performance) solution can easily and productively work with large volume data generated under large-scale AI inference workloads. The memory chip giant said it plans to release samples of NAND and controllers with new structures by the end of 2026.
AIN D (Density) solution is working on targeting high-density problems, enabling customers to cost-effectively store large amounts of data with low power consumption. As per the company it targets to increase density to the petabyte (PB) level from the terabyte (TB) level of current QLC-based SSDs, and aims for a mid-end storage solution that implements both the speed of SSD and the cost efficiency of HDD.
Executive Statement
According to Ahn Hyun, president and chief development officer, through OCP Global Summit and HBF Night, they were able to showcase SK hynix’s present and future as a global AI memory solution provider, thriving in a rapidly evolving AI market. In the next generation NAND storage market, SK hynix will collaborate closely with customers and partners to become a key player.