AI’s demand for data could cause tight storage chip supplies, Solidigm executive says

SAN JOSE, California: The same booming AI demand that has caused the chairman of South Korea’s SK Group to predict shortages of high-bandwidth memory chips could also cause tight supplies for storage drives, an executive from the South Korean firm’s U.S.-based AI subsidiary Solidigm told Reuters ‌this week.

Memory ⁠chips ⁠that sit right next to computing chips are critical to the servers sold by Nvidia and others, and earlier this week at Nvidia’s annual developer conference, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won told reporters that shortages of high-bandwidth memory could last until 2030 because of demand for AI systems.