Samsung Starts Mass Production of Industry’s Most Powerful PC SSD Optimal for AI Applications
Samsung
Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced it has
begun mass producing PM9E1, a PCle 5.0 SSD with the industry’s highest
performance and largest capacity. Built on its in-house 5-nanometer (nm)-based
controller and eighth-generation V-NAND (V8) technology, the PM9E1 will provide
powerful performance and enhanced power efficiency, making it an optimal
solution for on-device AI PCs. Key attributes in SSDs, including performance,
storage capacity, power efficiency and security, have all been improved
compared to its predecessor (PM9A1a).
“Our PM9E1
integrated with a 5nm controller delivers industry-leading power efficiency and
utmost performance validated by our key partners,” said YongCheol Bae,
Executive Vice President of Memory Product Planning at Samsung Electronics. “In
the rapidly growing on-device AI era, Samsung’s PM9E1 will offer a robust
foundation for global customers to effectively plan their AI portfolios.”
Thanks to the
eight-channel PCIe 5.0 interface, the sequential read and write speeds of the
new SSD have more than doubled compared to the previous generation, reaching up
to 14.5 gigabytes-per-second (GB/s) and 13GB/s, respectively. This powerful
performance enables faster data transfer even with data-intensive AI
applications, allowing a 14GB large language model (LLM) to be transferred from
the SSD to DRAM in less than a second.
The PM9E1 offers a
range of storage options, including 512GB, 1 terabyte (TB), 2TB and the
industry’s largest capacity of 4TB. The 4TB option is especially an optimum
solution for PC users in need of high-capacity storage for large-sized files
such as AI-generated contents, data-heavy programs and high-resolution videos,
as well as tasks that require intensive workloads such as gaming.
Additionally, the
significantly improved power efficiency of over 50% allows for longer battery
life which is ideal for on-device AI applications.
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