The flash memory technology has dramatically changed the capabilities and form factors of persistent computer storage.Without continuous scaling and advances of the technology, we wouldn’t have seen the widespread deployment of attractive mobiledevices or pleasantly fast response times of large social network services that we tap every day. In this talk, I will first describehow computing systems have traditionally interfaced with flash memory devices in the past, leading to today’s prevalent form ofsolid-state drives (SSDs). Moreover, there are growing interests among the industry and academic communities in renewed flashstorage interfaces (and features) for several compelling reasons. I will discuss these trends and suggest promising future directions toaccommodate some of the immediate needs.

Dr. Sangyeun Cho, is a VP of Research for Memory Solutions Lab in Samsung’s Memory Division.He was with Samsung’s System LSI Division (1999~2004) and the University of Pittsburgh (2004~2014) where he was a tenuredassociate professor of computer science. His research interests are in the area of computer architecture and system software with particular focus on performance, power and reliability of memory and storage hierarchy design for next-generation multicore systems.