Micron Develops Industry's First PCIe Gen 6 Data Center SSD for Ecosystem Enablement

[Nomad76]

Micron Technology, Inc., today announced it is the first to develop PCIe Gen 6 data center SSD technology for ecosystem enablement as part of a portfolio of memory and storage products to support the broad demand for AI. Addressing these demands, Raj Narasimhan, senior vice president and general manager of Micron's Compute and Networking Business Unit, will present a keynote at FMS titled, "Data is at the heart of AI: Micron memory and storage are fueling the AI revolution," on Wednesday, Aug. 7, at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time. The session will focus on how Micron's industry-leading products are impacting AI system architectures while enabling faster and more power-efficient solutions to manage vast data sets.

At FMS, Micron will demonstrate that it is the first to develop a PCIe Gen 6 SSD for ecosystem enablement, once again showcasing its storage technology leadership. By making this technology — which delivers sequential read bandwidths of over 26 GB/s — available to partners, Micron is kickstarting the PCIe Gen 6 ecosystem. This achievement builds on Micron's recent announcement of the world's fastest data center SSD, the Micron 9550, and further bolsters Micron's leadership position in AI storage.





As an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions that transform how the world uses information, Micron experts will be an integral part of the FMS 2024 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 Gen 6 electrical consideration and characterization for HVM SSDs: Thursday, August 8, at 1:25 p.m. Pacific time (Ballroom G)

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[DaemonForce]

A new generation of PCI-E related storage is super exciting.
Unfortunately coming from g3x4 NVMe as a curious experiment, I'm familiar with the concept of too fast.
Some of us are going to get into a habit of pressing the

button waaaay more often.

 

[Nomad76]

A new generation of PCI-E related storage is super exciting.
Unfortunately coming from g3x4 NVMe as a curious experiment, I'm familiar with the concept of too fast.
Some of us are going to get into a habit of pressing the View attachment 357616 button waaaay more often.

"sequential read bandwidths of over 26 GB/s" and all I can say is "yummy crunch crunch"

 

[Wirko]

If they have built a prototype, they better build another one because the only thing a PCIe 6 SSD can connect to is... another PCIe 6 SSD.

 

[Bwaze]

Imagine the short load times of games, once the DirectStorage... What? We're not using that any more? Right. Micron memory and storage are fueling the AI revolution! What can storage do for AI? Etc...

 

[Nanochip]

I'm glad innovation is full steam ahead and that PCIe speeds are again advancing, after the lull period that followed PCIe3.0. But my question is, are we entering diminishing returns? Like what will 26 GB/sec do for client/retail Windows/Linux use cases, loading games, loading the web, etc. Like isn't PCIe4.0 already more than fast enough, for most consumer use cases? And for the foreseeable future?

I can see these PCIe6.0 drives being relevant for DataCenters and Server applications, but not necessarily Client applications.

Also, finally, what about power consumption and cooling needs? The first generation of PCIe5.0 drives ran way too hot and I know they're finally starting to use 6nm to cut power consumption with Pcie5.0 Wave2 drives, but is 6nm enough to keep PCIe6.0 power consumption/temps in check?