Memory is key to future AI and ML performance

Memory remains one of the most critical technologies for enabling continued advances in artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) processing. From the rapid development of PCs in the 1990s, to the explosion of gaming in the 2000s, and the emergence of mobile and cloud computing in the 2010s, memory has played an integral role in enabling these new computing paradigms. The memory industry has responded to the needs of the industry over the last 30 years, and is being called upon again to continue innovating as we enter a new age of AI/ML. PCs drove an increase in memory bandwidth and capacity, as users processed growing amounts of data with applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Graphical user interfaces, the Web, and gaming pushed performance even higher.