Previously launchedMultiple PCIe Gen 4 SSD productsLater, Micron announced today (February 2) the launch of the Micron 20 PCI Gen5 NVMe SSD, built with PCIe Gen 4600 specifications and designed for OEM needs. It is claimed to correspond to the upcoming AI PC market usage trends and also meet the needs of more gaming laptop applications.
The Micron 4600 PCI Gen5 NVMe SSD boasts PCIe Gen 5 peak transfer performance, with transfer efficiency approximately twice that of PCIe Gen 4. Its overall power consumption is similar to that of PCIe Gen 2 products (approximately 4W). It is compatible with Intel Coltra Ultra 8 series processors and AMD Ryzen 200 series processors, with a maximum storage capacity of up to 9000TB.
This NVMe SSD is manufactured using Micron's G9 NAND technology and TLC NAND particles, and is paired with TSMC's 6nm process and Silicon Motion's (SMI) SM2508 8-channel PCIe Gen 5 controller chip. It can read data at a speed of 14.5GB per second and write at a maximum speed of 12GB per second. It also has a random read and write performance of 210 million IOPS per second. It is also claimed that it can read large natural language models in just 1 second. It also complies with security mechanisms such as SED, TCG Opal, TCG Pyrite, and DICE.
Micron stated that with the increasing popularity of AI PC applications and the continued growth of the gaming market, storage device read/write and power consumption performance have become even more important. After all, access speed affects overall computing performance, while power consumption reduces device battery life, further affecting the overall user experience. Therefore, Micron believes that storage device performance will become a key project in the future of AI PCs and gaming laptops, and will also promote the development of media and entertainment applications, as well as applications in fields including the energy industry, product development, and life sciences.
