FMS Best of Show Awards 2026

Winners & Finalists

Celebrating products, services, and innovations across the memory and storage ecosystem. Below are the award winners and finalists selected in each category.

Award Winner

SuperWomen of FMS Leadership Award

  • Richelle Ahlvers

    Director, Ecosystem Enabling and Technology Initiatives, Intel
    Vice Chair, Board of Directors, SNIA

Award Winner

FMS Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

  • Mian Quddus

    VP, Standards and Technology Enablement, Samsung Semiconductor and Chairman of the Board of Directors, JEDEC

3D & NAND Innovation Award

  • Samsung Semiconductor - V10 WINNER
  • NEO Semiconductor - 3D X-DRAM
  • Sandisk BiCS10 x4 (QLC)
  • Longsys - Longsys PCIe Gen5 mSSD

AI Application Award

  • Dnotitia, Inc. — Seahorse AI Storage WINNER
  • Credo - OmniConnect Weaver
  • Samsung Semiconductor - zNAND UCIe Solution
  • XCENA, CXL KV Cache Sharing Platform Powered by MX1P CXL Computational Memory

AI Infrastructure Award

  • Marvell Photonic Fabric WINNER
  • Everpure Hyperscale KV Cache Solution
  • MaxLinear, Inc. — Panther Storage Accelerator
  • Samsung Semiconductor - PM1763

Connectivity Award

  • CXL Consortium – CXL Memory Pooling & CXL 4.0 Specification WINNER
  • Marvell Structera
  • NVM Express & Live Migration Feature Set
  • UCIe Consortium

Device Engineering Award

  • Sandisk, SPRandom (Sandisk Pseudo-Random) WINNER
  • DapuStor Corporation and UBIX
  • FADU, PCIe Gen6 Controller Lhotse
  • Macronix International - DT-SSD

Next-Gen Memory Award

  • Samsung Semiconductor - LPDDR5X-PIM WINNER
  • Micron 256GB SOCAMM2 Low Power DRAM Module
  • NEO Semiconductor X-SRAM Next-Generation AI On-Chip Memory
  • XCENA, MX1P CXL Computational Memory Device with NDP

Servers & Networking Award

  • MaxLinear, Inc. — Panther Storage Accelerator WINNER
  • Marvell Teralynx T100
  • Microchip Technology Switchtec PCIe Gen 6 switches
  • Supermicro ARS-222L-FE324R

Specialized Storage Award

  • KIOXIA GP Series Super High IOPS SSD WINNER
  • Asine - Photon Series
  • BIWIN Storage Technology - BIWIN BL100
  • Samsung Semiconductor - BM1773

Startup Business Growth Award

  • XCENA, MX1P Computational Memory Platform and Series-B Growth Milestone WINNER
  • Dnotitia, Inc. — VDPU and the Seahorse AI memory-infrastructure platform
  • Primemas Inc.
  • ScaleFlux

Sustainability Award

  • 245TB capacity Micron 6600 ION SSD WINNER
  • BIWIN Storage Technology - BIWIN SP5002 Enterprise SSD
  • Quarch Technology - Gen6 Power Analysis Module Range
  • Samsung Semiconductor - LPDDR6

User Implementation Award

  • Micron LPCAMM2 (LPDDR5X Compression Attached Memory Module) WINNER
  • Credo OmniConnect Weaver in collaboration with Positron AI
  • Sandisk - Shrinking RDT Without Relaxing Reliability
  • Sandisk Extreme Fit USB-C Flash Drive

The Grand Prize - Best of Show

  • Micron WINNER
  • Marvell
  • MaxLinear, Inc.
  • Samsung Semiconductor

 

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