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Digitimes November 6, 2026 By Levi Li neutral

Samsung, SK Hynix eye AI inference boom as South Korea's SSD exports soar 584%

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Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are expanding their high-value NAND flash portfolios to meet growing demand for high-performance, high-capacity enterprise solid-state drives (eSSDs). The proliferation of AI agents and long-context services is increasing the need for key-value (KV) caching, prompting both companies to develop next-generation SSDs and tiered memory technologies to reuse AI computation results more efficiently.
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