FMS 2025: Best of Show Award Winners 2025

FMS: The Future of Memory and Storage, widely recognized as the leading global conference spotlighting breakthroughs, trends, and key innovators in the multi-billion-dollar high-speed memory, storage, and SSD markets, today announced the winners of its 2025 Best of Show Awards. Now in its 19th year, the awards program received a record-breaking number of nominations.

“This year’s award winners represent innovation across the full spectrum of memory and storage technologies,” said Jay Kramer, awards chair for Future of Memory and Storage. “We are honored to recognize these companies for their groundbreaking contributions to the memory and storage industry and the critical role they play in driving future customer adoption.”

The 18th Annual Flash Memory Summit Best of Show Award Winners are:

Most Innovative Customer Implementation

• Category: HPC Solution
  Company: DDN
  Product: Cineca Supercomputing Center with DDN Data Intelligence Platform
  

Most Innovative Enterprise Business Application

• Category: HPC Solution
  Company: Graid Technology
  Product: Graid SupremeRAID

Most Innovative Consumer Application

• Company: Sandisk
  Product: WD BLACK SN8100 NVMe SSD

Most Innovative Startup Company

• Category: Virtualization IT Infrastructure
  Company: Verge.IO
  Product: VergeIQ

Most Innovative Hyperscaler Implementation

• Company: Pure Storage
  Product: DirectFlash QLC

Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Application

• Category: Media and Entertainment Solution
  Company: VAST Data
  Product: VAST Data Platform and the NHL
  

Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Application

• Category: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Workflow
  Company: Infinidat
  Product: InfiniBox Platforms

Most Innovative Sustainability Technology

• Company: Western Digital
  Product: Advanced Rare Earth Material Capture Program

Most Innovative Technology

• Category: Industry Standards
  Company: SNIA Technical Work Groups
  Product: CXL Memory Hackathon & EDSFF E2 Form Factor

  Company: UALink Consortium
  Product: UALink 200G 1.0 Specification

  Company: CXL Consortium
  Product: CXL 3.X Specifications

• Category: 3D NAND Flash Memory
  Company: YMTC
  Product: Xtacking 4.0

• Category: NAND Flash Solution
  Company: Sandisk
  Product: High Bandwidth Flash (HBF)

• Category: High Bandwidth Memory Technology
  Company: NEO Semiconductor
  Product: X-HBM Memory Solution

• Category: DRAM Solution
  Company: Micron
  Product: 1-Gamma Node LPDDR5X LPDRAM

• Category: AI Accelerator
  Company: Pliops
  Product: LightningAI FusIOnX

• Category: Computational Memory
  Company: XCENA
  Product: MX1 CXL3.X

• Category: Networks
  Company: UnifabriX
  Product: Memory-over-Fabrics

• Category: Memory Controller
  Company: Innodisk
  Product: CXL Memory Module

  Company: Silicon Motion
  Product: SM2514-AT Automotive SSD Controller

• Category: SSD Technology
  Company: KIOXIA
  Product: LC9 Series 245.76 TB SSD with BiCS FLASH generation 8 Memory

  Company: Solidigm
  Product: Liquid Cooled Hot Swappable NVMe SSD

• Category: Enterprise SSD
  Company: Samsung
  Product: PM1763 16-Channel PCIe Gen6 SSD

• Category: SSD Software Technology
  Company: FADU
  Product: FADU Flexible Data Placement (FDP)
  

• Category: 3D Memory Technology
  Company: Adeia
  Product: Hybrid Bonding for Memory Device
  

• Category: All-Flash Storage Server Solution
  Company: Supermicro
  Product: ARS-121L-NE316R 1U Storage System