The CES® show in Las Vegas is the largest consumer electronics show in the world. The attendance for this year’s event was estimated at over 141,000 with over 4,500 exhibitors and 6,000 media professionals. This year’s overwhelming theme was AI (Artificial Intelligence), and I couldn’t walk 50 steps at CES without seeing something related to AI. I am impressed and scared with the things that AI can already do, and it’s only the beginning. In a few years, AI may become an integral part of our daily lives.
A group of us from TAEC (Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.) attended CES 2025. We were busy meeting our customers at our company suite and showcasing our latest products, which included the MG11 24TB1 Nearline HDD. Boasting capacities up to 24TB, our latest offering is exactly what Cloud customers are demanding to keep up their growing storage needs. Although no one has been able to exactly quantify the impact of Artificial Intelligence on storage requirements, the general consensus is that AI will be accretive to the cloud growth. As such, Toshiba’s HDDs such as the MG11 24TB Nearline HDD will be in high demand.
I can do without the long taxi lines and 20-hour workdays, but there is a one part of CES that I do enjoy – interaction with our customers. With so many of us working remotely now, most of the meetings have switched from in-person to virtual. So, this is one occasion, it allows me to meet our customers in person and even spend some afterwork hours together bonding our work relationship and friendship. And although everything at CES was about AI, it can never replace my personal customer/friend relationships.
From left to right: Anthony Kuo, Daisy Chang, Kyle Yamamoto, Dave Salle, Yaniv Shachi (CTI), Bill Willette, Shin Kurosawa, Christine Liang, Atsushi Toyama, Eugene Zien
Author’s note: This blog was written WITHOUT the aid of AI (Artificial Intelligence).
1 One Gigabyte (1GB) means 109 = 1,000,000,000 bytes and One Terabyte (1TB) means 1012= 1,000,000,000,000 bytes using powers of 10. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB = 230 = 1,073,741,824 bytes and 1TB = 240 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system and other factors.
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