Recently, Ni Guangnan, an academician of the CAE Member, said at the 2023 World Semiconductor Conference that China has reached the era of replacing mechanical storage with semiconductor storage.
At present, the storage capacity of domestic computing power centers is relatively insufficient, which cannot fully realize the investment benefits. According to Ni Guangnan, China currently mainly uses mechanical hard drives for storage, with advanced semiconductor storage technology lagging behind. However, China has reached the era of fully replacing mechanical storage with semiconductor storage, which is currently slow due to price issues.
Ni Guangnan suggested that in order to promote better development of the industry, the "Guidelines for the Construction of Computing Centers" should be released in the form of "industry standards" or "group standards", proposing an appropriate ratio range for "computing power" and "storage power", and proposing an appropriate ratio range for using SSD advanced storage power in "storage power", avoiding certain tendencies in vigorously developing computing power center construction, balanced deployment, balanced development, and seizing the high ground of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation.
In addition, Ni Guangnan also suggested that in government procurement, bidding and other projects for storage devices, priority should be given to supporting SSD and not using a single price index as the basis for evaluation.
It is worth mentioning that Ni Guangnan previously stated at the 13th Electronic Information Industry Standards Promotion Conference that both flash memory and SSD belong to the category of semiconductor storage, and flash memory refers to storage media, namely flash memory particles. SSD refers to a storage device. Ni Guangnan believes that currently, the proportion of SSDs used in China's computing power centers is relatively low, and the proportion of flash memory in China's storage market is still relatively low, with huge potential for future development.
Regarding this, Ni Guangnan stated that with the gradual improvement of China's domestic production capacity for storage machines and flash memory, the time has come for SSDs to replace HDDs.