Flash Memory Summit Announces Lifetime Achievement Award Winner for 2023

Amber Huffman to be honored throughout annual summit

SANTA CLARA, CA, UNITED STATES, July 27, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Flash Memory Summit (FMS) as we speak introduced this yr’s recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award: Amber Huffman of Google Cloud. Huffman is being acknowledged for her achievements in bringing flash storage into the mainstream of the info storage business by founding and driving the requirements which have made flash reminiscence a mainstream storage medium for just about all computing purposes. FMS will honor Huffman for her accomplishments through the annual summit on Tuesday, August 8, at 11:30am PDT.

Amber Huffman is receiving this prestigious award for her half in establishing and main business organizations whose requirements have accelerated the adoption of NAND flash in computing techniques:

● The Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI), which standardized NAND chip interfaces to work with all chips, no matter provider or revision stage
● NVM Specific (NVMe), a substitute for HDD-oriented storage interfaces that takes benefit of flash’s explicit strengths, and permits storage class reminiscence together with persistent reminiscence
● The Superior Host Controller Interface (AHCI), the programming interface for Serial ATA (SATA), to allow scaling past onerous drive limitations to permit SSDs to realize widespread market penetration
● Board member of the Open Compute Undertaking (OCP) Basis, and OCP Storage Undertaking co-lead, to drive widespread datacenter SSD necessities for broad adoption of superior options
● Board member of the Common Chiplet Interconnect Specific (UCIe), which supplies the trail to combine persistent reminiscence into SoC packages

Huffman has proven excellent management in all of those and different requirements. She additionally based NVM Specific, Inc., served because the specification editor till 2017, and continues to guide the group ahead as its President. Her work outlined and drove an ordinary that, like ONFI, has confirmed to be transformative all through the business.

As a Principal Engineer at Google Cloud, Amber is accountable for steering Google’s business engagement within the datacenter ecosystem together with storage, servers, networking, and accelerators. Beforehand, she labored at Intel for over 25 years as an Intel Fellow and VP, and he or she has been granted 25 patents in knowledge storage structure and associated applied sciences.

Huffman is thought throughout the business not solely as an evangelist and diplomat who makes issues occur, but in addition as an inclusive chief and a passionate mentor. In 2018 she was the primary recipient of Flash Memory Summit’s and The Evaluator Group’s SuperWomen in Flash Management Award, and in 2019 she obtained the International Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Rising Girls of Affect Award. She now serves on the GSA Girls’s Management Council, and the College of Michigan’s Pc Science & Engineering Nationwide Advisory Board.

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“Amber’s technical affect within the computing and datacenter ecosystem house can’t be overstated. All through her profession Amber has been instrumental to driving consensus and motion round new requirements that moved the complete knowledge storage business ahead,” mentioned Amin Vahdat, Vice President and Basic Supervisor, Techniques, and Cloud AI, Google Cloud. “Not solely has she impacted the know-how, however she has made a long-lasting impression on the neighborhood as effectively, serving in key management roles alongside the best way. I’m excited to see Amber’s achievements on this house acknowledged and stay up for witnessing her contributions within the years to come back.”

“Amber’s lifetime work in driving NAND flash and interface requirements – and the applied sciences behind them – has been profoundly transformational to the business,” mentioned Wealthy Uhlig, Intel Senior Fellow, CVP and Director of Intel Labs. “She is an inspiration not solely for what she has achieved, however how she did it – at all times searching for to assist and coach the technologists round her to achieve new heights of innovation as a neighborhood. It’s great to see her management acknowledged!”

“Amber’s work and imaginative and prescient enabled flash storage to maneuver from merely a quicker, more-expensive onerous disk drive substitute to the dominant storage know-how from the laptop computer to the info middle,” mentioned Chuck Sobey, FMS Basic Chair. “We’re delighted to showcase her contributions, and are trying ahead to her persevering with management in our business.”

For Extra Data
The FMS web site at https://bit.ly/FMSLAA contains extra details about Amber Huffman’s impression on the reminiscence and storage business, in addition to details about the Lifetime Achievement Award recipients since 2011.

About Flash Memory Summit
Flash Memory Summit shall be held August 8-10, 2023, on the Santa Clara Conference Middle in California. Produced by Convention ConCepts, FMS showcases the business’s key purposes, applied sciences, distributors, and progressive startups which might be driving the multi-billion greenback high-speed reminiscence and SSD markets. First held in 2006, FMS is the world’s largest occasion that includes the developments, improvements, and influencers driving the adoption of flash reminiscence and different high-speed reminiscence applied sciences inside demanding enterprise storage purposes, high-performance computing, AI/ML, the cloud, and cell and embedded techniques. Observe us on Twitter @FMS2023 and @FlashMemorySummit.

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