As SC26 approaches, one message is likely to cut through the noise on the show floor: throwing more GPUs at an AI problem doesn’t automatically solve it. In this pre-show Q&A with VMblog, Michael Wu, GM and President of Phison USA, argues that memory capacity, data movement and storage performance are becoming just as critical as raw compute, particularly as longer context windows, agentic workflows and larger datasets strain budgets already under scrutiny. For a …