Neville Ichhaporia is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the SSD Business Unit at KIOXIA America, Inc., responsible for SSD marketing, business management, product planning, and engineering, overseeing the SSD product portfolio aimed at cloud, data center, enterprise, and client computing markets. Neville has over 20 years of extensive industry experience, including product management, strategic marketing, new product development, hardware engineering, and R&D. Prior to joining KIOXIA in 2016, Neville held diverse roles at Toshiba Memory America, SanDisk, Western Digital Corporation, and Microchip. Mr. Ichhaporia holds an MBA from the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, an MS in Electrical Engineering and VLSI Design from the University of Ohio, Toledo, and a BS in Instrumentation and Control Systems from the University of Mumbai.
The AI industry focus is shifting from model training to inference systems that deliver customer value. This transition is changing the design of new data centers built specifically for AI workloads, placing new demands on memory and storage. As the inventor of NAND and 3D flash memory, KIOXIA continues to deliver innovations in flash memory, SSDs, and software for every application, and especially AI. KIOXIA BiCS FLASH™ 3D memory deliver advances in performance, density, and reliability, which enable SSDs to address workloads for today and the future. KIOXIA memory and SSD leaders will share the latest advancements in the technology, and how they deliver performance and scaling advantages in new AI-centric data centers.