Industry Findings: Capacity planning and sovereign-data considerations are reshaping how Filipino enterprises choose memory architectures for AI workloads. A decisive policy milestone occurred when the Department of Trade and Industry adopted the National AI Strategy Roadmap 2.0 in Jul-2024, which directed funding, testbed access and skills programmes toward domestic AI capability building. That public-policy shift encouraged organisations to prioritise memory and storage designs that support onshore dataset staging, reduce cross-border I/O, and shorten validation cycles for production models. The result increased demand for hybrid memory stacks that balance persistent dataset tiers with higher on-node DRAM density for low-latency inference.
Industry Player Insights: Across Philippines sector, many companies are active; some include Western Digital, Seagate Technology, Micron Technology, and Samsung Electronics etc. Western Digital published an AI Data Cycle storage framework in Jun-2024 that helped local cloud and telco buyers map persistent storage and caching tiers to AI pipelines. Separately, Micron’s start of HBM3E volume production in Feb-2024 expanded the available ultra-high-bandwidth options that Filipino integrators can specify for training racks. These vendor developments improved the menu of validated memory and storage choices available to Philippine integrators and reduced risk for early commercial AI rollouts.