Flash Storage
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Jeff Dean: Low latency is critical as AI shifts to complex multi-token tasks
“Latency is actually a pretty important characteristic for these models, because we're gonna want Models to do much more complicated things that are going to involve, you know, generating many more tokens from when you ask the model to do something until it act…”
Pichai: Google benchmarked DeepSeek against Flash and Flash was as efficient
“Interestingly for us internally, we benchmarked it to Flash and, you know, Flash was, ah, as efficient or, you know, you could argue in some ways better.”
Flash memory will replace all mechanical storage in data centers
“I had come to the conclusion that Flash was going to replace all the mechanical storage in the data center.”
Caldwell: imeem streamed audio by transcoding music into Flash video files
“Rather than rolling our own tools, that was music specific, we just took all of the open source video stuff and hacked the other video code that we had. So that every music file played on iMeme was actually a video file. It was a .FLV back in the day. And it w…”
Yoram Novak: Commodity flash storage and software will replace disk drives
“Flash is definitely going to take over. Again, power cooling and especially performance of flash, even if reliability is not there. And software is going to bridge the gap and basically provide the performance that you need with the reliability that you need a…”
Jonnala: Flash memory fails more frequently than traditional spinning hard disks
“Flash actually fails. More than a disk. Disk has been around for 50 years. Flash actually fails quite a lot.”
Ben Uretsky: Flash will replace spinning disks for primary storage
“Well, flash. I think that's a no-brainer.”
Mr. Robot used interactive Flash animations for on-screen terminal hacking scenes
“The way we achieve that is through flash animation. So I'll work closely with an animator to create an interactive demo, basically, where everything looks legit, like, looks like a real desktop environment, looks like a real terminal window, but it's not. It's…”