Shenzhen – October 12, 2026 -- The 5th Global Memory Innovation Forum (GMIF2026) has named 18 companies across memory, compute, packaging and testing equipment, test systems and end applications in its first GMIF2026 Annual Awards, led by Samsung Semiconductor, Sandisk, CXMT and Lenovo.

Shenzhen – September 27, 2026 -- Memory and storage executives from Samsung, Sandisk, Solidigm, Arm and Lenovo converged in Shenzhen on September 23 to argue that AI inference workloads, not training alone, are now the primary driver reshaping storage architecture demand. The 5th GMIF2026 Innovation Summit, co-hosted by the Shenzhen Memory Industry Association (SMIA) and Peking University's School of Integrated Circuits, drew IDMs, controller makers, OSATs, and AI infrastructure vendors under the theme "The Future Built on AI Memory and Storage."