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Data: Increasing Data Volumes Will Further Spur Demand for Chips
Data centers are seeing huge growth in the amounts of data that they manage, and this in turn is causing those data centers to grow and multiply to keep up with the demand. The data being managed will come from social networks, gaming, business infrastructure, to name just a few applications. New technology is another driver behind the growth, areas like 5G networking, Industrial IoT, artificial intelligence, and self-driving cars.
To support all this data, hyperscale data centers, data centers with more than 5000 servers spanning more than 10,000 square feet, are proliferating. Lee Seok-hee, CEO of chipmaker SK Hynix, expects that there will be more than 1060 hyperscale data centers operating by 2025.
Data centers need semiconductor chips to be able to handle huge data volumes at high bandwidth with high performance. Lee said that “the total amount of both structured and unstructured data is expected to increase exponentially. If you look at the capacity requirement of DRAM and NAND Flash for each data center, the numbers are daunting.”
Chipmakers are struggling to keep up with demand and also to continually advance the technology used in production. Lees said that “we are improving materials and design structures for technical evolution in each field of DRAM and NAND, and solving the reliability problems step by step. If the platform is innovated successfully based on this, it is possible to achieve the DRAM process below 10 nanometers (nm) and stack over 600 layers of NAND in the future.”
