DIGITIMES Insight: Cloud LLMs drive sharp increase in KV cache demand; establishes three key directions for SSD development

DIGITIMESNovember 6, 2026en

DIGITIMES observes that as large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI development become increasingly widespread, it is driving not only significant growth in data center CPU demand but also a sharp surge in key-value cache (KV cache) storage requirements. As DRAM and HBM capacity face severe supply shortages, demand for data center SSDs is rising rapidly.

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