PCIe 6.0 SSDs have arrived, but today's buyers are AI data centers, with Micron's 9650 entering mass production on February 12, 2026, and Samsung's PM1763 announced on July 8, both enterprise drives o…
Silicon Motion introduced the MonTitan SSD Reference Design Kit (RDK) at FMS 2026, targeting Agentic AI infrastructure with next-generation PerformaShape technology and support for PCIe 6.0. The RDK, …
PCIe Gen6 servers will begin shipping in the second half of 2026, doubling per-lane transfer rates over Gen5 and enabling 800Gbps network bandwidth from a single x16 slot, but Gen5 storage will remain…
Silicon Motion demonstrated its enterprise SM8388 and SM8008 SSD controllers at Computex 2026, targeting nearline storage and boot drives respectively. The SM8388 achieved up to 14.6GB/s sequential re…
Silicon Motion reported that the retail SSD market has nearly disappeared as NAND flash supply shifts toward AI servers and OEMs, leaving fewer drives for gaming PCs.…
Silicon Motion is preparing a PCIe 6.0 consumer SSD controller for release next year, according to Senior VP Nelson Duann. The company and rival Phison posted record Q1 results driven by hyperscaler d…
Silicon Motion released the SM2524XT, a DRAM-less PCIe Gen5 SSD controller designed for AI PCs and edge AI inferencing, achieving up to 14 GBps sequential reads and 2.5 million random read IOPS. The c…