On August 4, FMS 2026 (The Future of Memory and Storage), a premier global event in the memory and storage technology industry, officially opened in Santa Clara, California. Beijing Memblaze Technology Co., Ltd. (Memblaze), a world-renowned provider of enterprise PCIe SSDs, showcased its PBlaze7 series products. Highlighting core advantages in high performance, ultra-low latency, high reliability, and high density, Memblaze is building a robust storage foundation focused on the evolution of AI infrastructure, while exploring new enterprise storage opportunities with global customers and partners.
FMS 2026 brought together leading global memory and storage vendors, key ecosystem players, and industry clients to showcase cutting-edge technical achievements and product innovations. Driven by new demands from evolving AI technologies, intense discussions took place around groundbreaking high-bandwidth, low-latency storage and interconnect technologies—such as HBM4/HBM4e, higher-layer 3D NAND stacking, PCIe 6.0, and optical interconnects. Other key topics included data management for AI workloads, KV Cache optimization, performance tuning for ultra-large capacity SSDs, and storage software stack optimizations, jointly painting a new blueprint for AI-era storage architecture.
During the event, the Memblaze booth attracted steady traffic from global industry clients, data center architects, and technical experts.
To address high-concurrency, multimodal AI inference workloads, the PBlaze7 7A40 offers a random read latency as low as 50μs and exceptional QoS stability. This provides efficient data feeding for KV Cache tiered storage and scheduling, as well as RAG vector database queries. Paired with a capacity of up to 30.72TB per drive, it significantly expands local data holding capacity, supporting more model weights, context caches, and business data locally—substantially boosting inference efficiency and optimizing cost per token.
As Memblaze's first PCIe 5.0 SSD, the PBlaze7 7940 has garnered widespread market attention since its release due to its outstanding performance and industry-leading energy efficiency, earning the prestigious FMS Best of Show - Most Innovative Flash Memory Application Award. Today, the drive has achieved broad adoption across China, North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, with cumulative shipments exceeding one million units. Its proven real-world reliability—equivalent to an MTBF of 15 million hours—continues to ensure stable operations for clients while delivering higher ROI and lower TCO.
Additionally, to address the growing demand for high-density storage in overseas markets, Memblaze featured the PBlaze7 7A40 Ocean series. Supporting ultra-large capacities up to 122.88TB, the product fully leverages PCIe 5.0 bandwidth to deliver sequential performance up to 14.2 GB/s. It effectively enhances single-node storage density, making it an ideal choice for massive data storage, data lake construction, and high-efficiency retrieval of colossal datasets.
From large-scale global product deliveries to performance fine-tuning for international compute clusters, Memblaze consistently adheres to a quality-first product philosophy, serving both domestic and international markets. Moving forward, the company will continue to deepen collaborations with global ecosystem partners, drive continuous innovation in enterprise storage technology, and provide more efficient and reliable storage power to support AI-era infrastructure.
