Samsung revealed ambitious plans tied to AI memory chips, including HBM and SSD, and targeting to accomplish its goals by 2030.

According to Samsung 2026 Sustainability Report, the Device Solutions (DS) Division is aiming to improve the energy efficiency of its HBM products by 2.5 times and its server SSD products by a striking 4 times, both by 2030.

HBM is already one of the most power-hungry components in modern AI servers. So a 2.5x efficiency improvement isn’t just a sustainability win; it’s potentially a competitive weapon.

If Samsung can deliver meaningfully better efficiency than rivals, that matters a lot when customers are signing contracts worth hundreds of millions.

The SSD target is arguably even more interesting. A 4x efficiency jump on server SSDs by the end of the decade is the kind of number that makes storage engineers pay attention.

Samsung has already commercialized HBM4 and the PM176 server SSD as part of this push, which suggests there’s real product momentum behind it.

By 2030, the DS Division plans to improve the energy efficiency of its HBM and server SSD products by 2.5 times and 4 times, respectively, to provide customers with optimized AI infrastructure solutions.

The DS Division also took a notable step on the environmental side, adopting what it calls a “Water Positive” approach, restoring around 240,000 tonnes of water resources, meaning it’s putting back more than it uses.

On the consumer side of the house, Samsung’s DX Division hit 94.8 percent renewable energy adoption and cut product power consumption by 34.4 percent compared to 2019.

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