In this episode, I’m joined by Michael Wu of Phison Electronics, recorded shortly after our meeting on the IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley. Michael takes us inside Phison’s latest breakthrough: the aiDAPTIV+ platform and its integration with StorONE’s ONEai solution. Together, they’re reshaping how enterprises think about AI training, inference, and data sovereignty.

Michael explains how aiDAPTIV+ acts as expansion memory for GPUs, reducing power consumption and cutting hardware costs by up to 10x. We also dig into the partnership with StorONE, which has produced a plug-and-play, storage-based AI solution that makes large language model training accessible to organizations of all sizes—including smaller businesses and universities that traditionally struggle with GPU access.

From the launch of the E28 Gen5 AI-enabled SSD controller to the endurance-driven Pascari X200Z SSDs, Michael shares the technical innovations under the hood and what they mean for performance and reliability. He also looks ahead to future workloads, where models with trillions of parameters will demand smarter, more scalable storage architectures.

If you’re an IT leader weighing the trade-offs between cloud-based AI and secure, on-premises solutions, or you’re simply curious about how storage is becoming central to AI acceleration, this conversation will give you a fresh perspective.

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