Phison and Intel Partner on AI PC Memory Expansion Tech: Run 26B Large Models with Just 16GB DRAM

At COMPUTEX 2026, Phison announced a collaboration with Intel to integrate its Pascari aiDAPTIV memory expansion technology into Intel's AI PC platform. It overcomes the traditional limitation of DRAM capacity in PCs, enabling AI PCs to run larger Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models and agentic AI applications locally. According to Phison, aiDAPTIV leverages high-performance NAND Flash working with DRAM to create a novel AI memory architecture, reducing the system memory capacity required for large models. Internal tests show that a system equipped with aiDAPTIV requires only 16GB of DRAM to run an AI model with 26 billion (26B) parameters. Without this technology, 32GB of DRAM would be needed to handle the same workload.