Samsung has disclosed extra particulars on an upcoming product, the PM9E1which is ready to be its first PCIe 5.0 SSD aimed on the end-user market (what it calls PC/consumer OEMs).
Its predecessor, the PM9A1, was launched practically three years in the past and featured the identical core elements because the 980 Professionalmain me to consider that the PM9E1 may properly be the OEM model of the Samsung 1000 Professional, the SSD destined to switch the 990 Professional as Samsung’s flagship SSD (and a candidate for greatest SSD of 2024).
In a weblog submit on the corporate’s web siteYongcheol Bae, Govt Vice President of Reminiscence Product Planning at Samsung Electronics, revealed that the PM9E1 is “set to be developed this June”, will assist PCIe 5.0 and options an 8-channel controller, twice as many because the one earlier than. In comparison with the PM9A1, there might be a 100% enchancment in sequential learn velocity and a 33% enchancment in effectivity.
This isn’t Samsung’s first foray on the planet of PCIe 5.0 SSD; it launched the PM1743 again in December 2021, which signifies that shoppers may have needed to wait virtually FOUR years with a view to a PCIe 5.0 leading edge SSD from Samsung.
By which era, enterprise might be trying in the direction of PCIe 6.0, leaving me with the impression that like Intel, Nvidia and AMDSamsung is trying in the direction of B2B and enterprise – somewhat than consumers- for progress.
Key to edge AI
Meaning learn speeds of as much as 14 GBps and – ought to the opposite numbers improve by the identical margins – writes of as much as 10.4 GBps, random reads of as much as 2M IOPS and random writes of as much as 1.7M IOPS. No particulars as to capability (more likely to be as much as 4TB), guarantee (more likely to be 5 years) or endurance (earlier technology hit 1200 TBW for the best capability).
Bae ended with a cryptic assertion in regards to the function of this specific SSD. “It’s anticipated to be a key product for on-device AI, as it might probably switch massive language fashions (LLMs) to DRAM in lower than one second”. LLM range enormously in sizes, from lots of of GB to tens of TB and there was a surge in curiosity from the likes of AMD and Intel to launch a technology of AI PC with built-in NPU.
Anticipate the brand new drive to return with an eighth technology TLC V-NAND and out there by means of choose gadgets from main PC OEMs (e.g. HP, Lenovo, Dell) later this yr. There needs to be OEM items out there from the likes of Amazon, Newegg, BestBuy and Walmart, simply in time for Black Friday.
