The year 2025 marks a pivotal moment in the accelerated adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). The rapid uptake of intelligent terminals—such as AI PCs, AI smartphones, and AI servers—has fueled the rise of innovative applications, including generative AI, autonomous driving, AI glasses, and embodied AI. Amid this evolution, storage systems have emerged from the background to take the center stage, serving as a key underpinning for enhancing AI experiences and driving systemic transformation.
In the face of the high demands of bandwidth, power consumption, latency, capacity and dimension across diverse AI-driven scenarios, significant breakthroughs have been achieved in new-generation high performance storage technologies like LPDDR5X/DDR5, QLC NAND, LPCAMM, and CXL. Integrated innovations in chip design, controller algorithms, and packaging and testing processes are propelling the industry into a new phase of AI-driven transformation.
In this dynamic context, the “Fourth GMIF2025 Innovation Summit (Global Memory Innovation Forum)”, co-hosted by the Shenzhen Memory Industry Association and the School of Integrated Circuits at Peking University and organized by JWinsights (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd., is scheduled to be held on September 24–25, 2025, at the Renaissance Shenzhen Bay Hotel.
Under the theme of “AI Applications, Innovation Empowered”, the summit will delve into three key topics, specifically emerging trends in storage technologies, real-world AI applications, and collaborative innovation across the storage industry chain. Representative enterprises across all segments of storage ecosystem, comprising wafer IDM manufacturers, controller and module suppliers, packaging and testing providers, and AI platform vendors, will come together to collectively explore innovation pathways and ecosystem development in the AI era.
01 Summit Topics and Agenda
The key focal points of GMIF2025 include:
Trends and Roadmaps of Storage Technologies
Centered on AI-driven storage innovations, the summit will explore industrial progresses in forefront technologies, and further map out the trajectory for storage’s enhanced value in the evolving compute architecture.
New Opportunities in Storage Driven by AI Applications
Focusing on core AI-based scenarios such as AI PCs, AI smartphones, AI servers, generative AI, autonomous driving, AI glasses and embodied AI, the summit will address emerging storage requirements in terms of performance, power consumption, capacity and form factor, and explore innovation at the intersection of technology and application.
Collaborative Innovation Across the Industry Chain
In the context of post-globalization supply chain restructuring, the summit will concentrate on strategic collaboration across the storage industry chain to bridge supply-demand gaps and cultivate a resilient, efficient, and innovation-driven global ecosystem.
GMIF2025 Agenda Overview:
02 Participant Industry Distribution
*Industry Breakdown of Attendees: Based on GMIF2024 Data
03 Highlights from GMIF2024
GMIF2024, successfully held last year, brought together over 30 core industry enterprises for keynote presentations, featured 33 exhibiting companies showcasing more than 150 innovative products, and presented 38 annual awards. The event garnered over 680 million impressions across all channels, attracted more than 1,400 professional attendees, and received widespread acclaim from both industry and the public.
During GMIF2024, the global live broadcast of memory trends by brands achieved a cumulative viewership of over 76,000 and total exposure exceeding 1 million.
04 Annual Awards & Industry Rankings
To recognize and celebrate outstanding enterprises for their remarkable contributions to innovation and development in the global memory industry, GMIF2025 will continue to honor exemplary companies across five award categories: Industry Contribution Award, Terminal Application Award, Solution Award, Technology Innovation Award, and Market Service Award. In addition, the Shenzhen Memory Industry Association (SMIA), in collaboration with the School of Integrated Circuits at Peking University and JWinsights (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd., will unveil the highly anticipated Memory Industry Ranking during the summit.
Looking back at GMIF2024, a distinguished group of enterprises—including Micron, Western Digital, Solidigm, CXMT, YMTC, GigaDevice, Intel, Arm, Rockchip, UNISOC, Allwinner Technology, Silergy, Victory Giant Technology, Silicon Motion, BIWIN, Skyverse, QUANXING Technology, POWEV, KingSpec, Hemei Jingyi, Tongfang, Weibu Information, SIXUNITED, Heyan Technology, Attach Point Intelligent Equipment, OKN Technology, InnoGrit, Tytantest, iWISEETEC, MICROFROM, Konsemi, LKAUTO, Maxwell, RORZE, ExTripod Electronics, EPS, LANYI, and many others—were recognized with the 2024 Annual Awards for their outstanding contributions to the storage and memory industry.
05 Feedback from Previous Attendees
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About SMIA
Founded in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in 2019, the SMIA(Shenzhen Memory Industry Association), a non-governmental social group in the semiconductor industry, focuses on domestic production and global business. With the goal of "Focus on Memory Sector to Achieve Collaborative Development", the SMIA creates a platform for industry service so as to build a collaborative industry ecosystem.
About GMIF
The Global Memory Innovation Forum (GMIF) is the most important annual event of SMIA. This forum aims to build an international and professional communication platform for the global memory industry to discuss new technologies, applications, cooperation, and opportunities. The forum is dedicated to providing communication opportunities for upstream and downstream manufacturers in the storage industry, consolidating the synergy and complementary development among industry partners, helping participating companies promote their products and brands, and empowering the global memory industry chain to win together!
For more information about GMIF, please visit https://www.gmif.com.cn/.
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