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HBF Emerges as a NAND-Based Bridge to Supercharge AI Inference
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HBF Emerges as a NAND-Based Bridge to Supercharge AI Inference

SK hynix and SanDisk unveiled High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), a NAND-based standard meant to sit between HBM and SSDs. Stacking NAND dies to up to 512GB per configuration, HBF delivers 0.4–3 TB/s bandwidth and is designed to expand AI inference memory by storing large models that are impractical for HBM, while signaling interoperability with CPUs/GPUs via the UCIe interconnect. It is positioned to complement, not replace, HBM and to foster an ecosystem of compatible products for faster AI workloads.

AI Inference Gains a Near-Compute Memory Standard with HBF OCP Spec
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AI Inference Gains a Near-Compute Memory Standard with HBF OCP Spec

SanDisk and SK hynix released the High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) technical specification through the Open Compute Project to standardize a near‑compute, high‑bandwidth memory solution for AI inference; with Google and Tenstorrent joining as consortia members, the spec defines system interfaces, electrical and packaging guidelines, reliability, and a software read/write guide, enabling HBF to coexist with High Bandwidth Memory and accelerating AI workloads. The spec is openly published to foster an early ecosystem, and Sandisk will discuss NAND’s role in AI at the FMS conference in Santa Clara.