Analyst: NAND's DRAM moment — DeepSeek V4.1 Flash keeps 26% of params on SSD
casper_hansen_ · x · 2026-09-11
Analyst Casper Hansen argues NAND is about to have its DRAM moment: in-memory parameter scaling is saturating as HBM capacity stops scaling massively.
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash already keeps 26% of its parameters on SSD — "that's the new architecture"
- Storage is becoming part of the model itself
- His prediction: within two years, most parameters in frontier models won't be in memory at all
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