Silicon Motion presented this week its new SM8466 controller, focused on PCIE 6.0 SSDs, the next generation of the most commonly used connection interface for components. The company promises products reaching up to 28,000MB/s of sequential reading, with random performance reaching 7 million IOPs.
The SM8466 is focused on the professional segment, as expected for a new technology. It is done in the TSMC 4NM process and meets NVME 2.0+ specifications, as well as OCPME SSD 2.5 OCP standards. In addition, it brings features aimed at companies, such as SCA interface, SR-IOV virtualization and MPF, namespaces, smart monitoring, etc.
Silicon Motion also informs that its PCIE 6.0 SSDS controller supports up to 512TB, an absurd capacity for a domestic PC, but focused on hyperesque and industrial use environments. We don’t have many other details of your performance, such as sequential recording or promises for the life cycle.
It is important to remember that the controller is the most important component of an SSD, but it’s just a part of it. With the SM8466 available it is also up to Silicon Motion’s partnership to take advantage of the chip’s potential in a full SSD. The company also points out that it already comes with support for Nand 3D TLC and QLC of the next generation.
PCIE 6.0 is still far from PCs
Almost every new product in the technology segment first appears in professional use and then gradually begins to gain domestic versions. Thus, the arrival of the first SSDs PCIE 6.0 for companies is an important step in seeing drives versions for the PC.
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However, it is most likely that we will not see the next generation of PIE in our homes anytime soon. PCIE 5.0 is considered to meet current high performance needs in games and casual use applications, while in companies there was a turn in the need for more advanced drives with the “boom” of the Generative and LLMS.
Silicon Motion CEO itself has previously commented that you do not expect to see PCIE 6.0 on PCs before 2030.
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Source: https://www.adrenaline.com.br/hardware/primeiros-ssds-pcie-6-0-podem-alcancar-ate-28-000mb-s/
