At the recent China Flash Memory Summit (CFMS 2023), a Samsung exec set out his vision for NAND Flash memory. During the speech on the theme of the “Re-evolution of Flash Memory and Towards a New Era,” Kyungryun Kim, VP of Samsung and GM of the NAND Product Planning Group, predicted 1-Petabyte (PB) SSDs will be available within the next decade. As someone who has previously spent $100s on computer storage devices measured in megabytes, then gigabytes, and now mostly deals in terabytes – it isn’t a surprise to see this next transition on the horizon. Remember, a 1PB drive...