India, Aug. 5 -- Six months after SK hynix partnered with SanDisk to drive High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) standardization, the consortium has reached a key milestone by unveiling the first HBF standard specifications.

According to SK hynix, the inaugural specification supports capacities of up to 512GB using 8-high and 16-high NAND stack configurations, with three bandwidth tiers (Grade 1-3) delivering roughly 0.4TB/s to 3.0TB/s.

The announcement came at the opening of Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) 2026, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California from Aug. 4-6. Notably, SK hynix also aims to accelerate adoption of an open HBF ecosystem by rallying major backers including Google DeepMind, and Tenstorrent, according to SEN T...