Micron develops industry's first PCIe Gen6 datacenter SSD: new Gen6 SSD pumps over 26GB/sec

Micron has just announced it's the first in the industry to develop a PCIe Gen6 data center SSD for ecosystem development.

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Ahead of FMS 2024 this week, the US-based memory giant continues on its announcements recently of the world's fastest data center SSD -- the new Micron 9550 -- which further bolsters Micron's leadership position in AI storage.

Micron's new PCIe Gen6 SSD delivers a sequential read bandwidth of over 26GB/sec, which is a large leap over the 14GB/sec (or so) that we're getting from new Gen5 SSDs on the market now. Micron is making its new PCIe Gen6 SSD available to partners, kickstarting the PCIe Gen6 ecosystem.

• Read more: Micron intros 9550 Gen5 SSD: the world's fastest data center SSD, 14GB/sec for AI workloads

Micron has a huge showcase ready for the world at FMS 2024 this week, with experts from the company hosting sessions including:

• FMS featured keynote presentation: Data is at the heart of AI: Micron memory and storage are fueling the AI revolution: Wednesday, Aug. 7, at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time (Mission City Ballroom)
• Analyzing workloads using storage as memory replacement for large model training: Tuesday, Aug. 6, at 9:45 a.m. Pacific time (Ballroom B)
• Quantifying power efficiency with real workloads in the data center: Wednesday, Aug. 7, at 9:45 a.m. Pacific time (Ballroom B)
• Power efficiency for NoSQL database: Thursday, Aug. 8, at 9:45 a.m. Pacific time (Ballroom G)
• MLPerf™ Storage - Does emulated AI training IO really represent the real workload?: Thursday, Aug. 8, at 12:10 p.m. Pacific time (Ballroom B)
• What can storage do for AI?: Thursday, August 8, at 12:10 p.m. Pacific time (Ballroom E)
• Characterizing data ingest for deep learning recommendation model training: Thursday, Aug. 8, at 1:25 p.m. Pacific time (Ballroom D)
• PCIe Gen6 electrical consideration and characterization for HVM SSDs: Thursday, August 8, at 1:25 p.m. Pacific time (Ballroom G)