A Walk Through Silicon Motion (SMI): New SSD Controllers Offer Near-GPU Storage Performance

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Silicon Motion showed new SM2524XT Gen5 and SM8466 Gen6 controllers delivering up to 28 GB/s sequential transfers and multi-million IOPS targets.

Quick Report

Silicon Motion showcased new SSD controllers at Computex: the DRAMless SM2524XT for Gen5 consumer drives and the SM8466 Gen6 enterprise controller aimed at near-GPU storage performance with targets up to ~28 GB/s sequential and multi-million IOPS.

SMI's demo figures included Gen5 controller reads up to 14 GB/s and a Gen6 roadmap promising up to 28 GB/s and up to 7 million IOPS; controllers are built on TSMC 6 nm and support NVMe 2.x protocols and large-capacity SSDs for computational-storage roles.

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