tech πΎ Why AI is using QLC SSDs for KV Cache
AI inference primarily involves two stages: Prefill and Decode, which rely heavily on the KV Cache. As AI context windows and batch sizes increase, the memory needed for the KV Cache expands significantly. This has pushed the industry toward developing KV Cache offloading technology and using SSD PODs. Operators are now starting to integrate QLC SSDs into these SSD PODs to handle the massive storage demands. This shift helps break through the capacity bottleneck associated with limited HBM memory. πΎ