US Stock Market Move | Storage sector opens with a widespread decline, Micron Technology, Inc. (MU.US) drops over 3%.

On Thursday, the storage sector opened with a general decline, with SanDisk (SNDK.US) and Micron Technology, Inc. (MU.US) falling over 3%, while Western Digital Corporation (WDC.US) and Seagate Technology Holdings PLC (STX.US) dropped over 2%. In terms of news, Alphabet Inc. Class C recently released a series of new algorithms aimed at significantly reducing the memory usage required to run large language models (LLM) and vector search engines. The core technologies introduced by Alphabet Inc. Class C include TurboQuant, quantized Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform, and PolarQuant. TurboQuant optimizes compression efficiency in the vector quantization process to address the memory burden brought by high-dimensional data processing; Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform significantly reduces data scale while maintaining data relationships intact through mathematical dimension reduction techniques, achieving efficient representation with "zero additional memory overhead"; PolarQuant utilizes polar coordinate mapping to project data into a fixed structure, skipping the traditional data normalization step and further reducing resource consumption. Alphabet Inc. Class C research scientist Amir Zandieh and Vice President and Senior Researcher Vahab Mirrokni stated that as AI is widely applied in scenarios such as large language models and semantic search, the importance of underlying vector quantization technology will continue to rise. These algorithms are expected to fundamentally improve the operational efficiency of AI systems and reduce dependence on high-end storage hardware.