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'PCIe Gen7 development has already started,' says Silicon Motion's Alex Chou
By Anton Shilov Published
SMI has big plans for data centers.

SSD price tracking 2026
By Ben Stockton Last updated
Updated daily, this list shows the lowest US prices on major SSD models.

Redditor buys suspicious drives on eBay just to report the scamming sellers if they get a fake SSD or HDD
By Jowi Morales Published
Unfortunately, this age-old scam still works.

Kioxia and Sandisk sample world's densest 3D NAND
By Anton Shilov Published
Kioxia, Sandisk begin to sample BiCS10 3D NAND: 332 active layers and over 29 Gb/mm2 areal capacity.

Chinese YMTC SSDs make their way into retail Lenovo laptops
By Jowi Morales Published
The AI-driven memory and storage chip shortage is driving OEMs towards Chinese chip manufacturers.

16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes — 25x more than the drive's endurance rating
By Zhiye Liu Published
As part of an experiment, an enthusiast has written one petabyte of data on a legacy Sandisk P4 SATA II SSD that was released 16 years ago.

Chinese makers of DRAM modules, SSDs have a serious advantage over American and Taiwanese suppliers, says SMI SVP
By Anton Shilov Published
CCP directives can be lifebuoy for Chinese producers of DRAM modules and solid-state drives as domestic memory makers may be obliged to support the module industry.

SMI says Nvidia is driving its consumer PCIe 6.0 roadmap, not AMD and Intel
By Anton Shilov Published
Nvidia may be ahead of AMD and Intel with PCIe Gen6-supporting platform for client PCs due to its client agentic AI ambitions, and that roadmap has suppliers like Silicon Motion paying attention.

'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec
By Anton Shilov Published
Vice president of client storage solutions at Silicon Motion warns that the retail SSD market has almost disappeared as NAND makers prioritize shipments of memory to AI data centers.

SMI's PCIe 6.0 SSD controller for consumer SSDs coming next year, but severe NAND shortages will get even worse in 2027 as AI data centers swallow supply
By Anton Shilov Published
Silicon Motion's Nelson Duann discusses NAND supply crisis in the consumer SSD market and the future of consumer storage.
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