SK hynix early in Friday introduced that the corporate has completed the event of it is PCB01 PCIe Gen5 SSD, the corporate’s forthcoming high-end SSD for OEMs. Based on the corporate’s new Alistar platform, the PCB01 is designed to ship chart-topping efficiency for consumer machines. And, as an indication of the instances, SK hynix is positioning the PCB01 for AI PCs, trying to synergize with the general trade curiosity in something and all the things AI.
The naked, OEM-focused drives have beforehand been proven off by SK hynix, and make no try to cover what’s beneath the hood. The PCB01 depends on SK hynix’s Alistar controller, which includes a PCIe Gen5 x4 host interface on the entrance finish and eight NAND channels on the again finish, inserting it solidly within the realm of high-end SSDs. Paired with the Alistar controller is the corporate’s newest 238-layer TLC NAND (H25T1TD48C & H25T2TD88C), which gives a most switch pace of 2400 MT/second. Being that this can be a high-end consumer SSD, there’s additionally a DRAM chip on board, although the corporate is not disclosing its capability.
As with different high-end PCIe 5.zero consumer SSDs, SK hynix is planning on hitting peak learn speeds of as much as 14GB/second on the drive, whereas peak sequential write speeds ought to prime 12GB/second (with pSLC caching, after all) – efficiency figures effectively inside the realm of risk for an eight channel drive. As for random efficiency, at Computex the corporate was telling attendees that the drives ought to be capable to maintain 4K random learn and write charges of two million IOPS, which could be very excessive as effectively. The SSDs are additionally stated to eat as much as 30% much less energy than ‘predecessors,’ in line with SK hynix, although the corporate did not elaborate on that determine. Typically within the storage trade, power figures are based mostly on iso-performance (fairly than peak efficiency) – primarily measuring power effectivity per bit fairly than toal energy consumption – and that’s possible the case right here as effectively.
At least initially, SK Hynix plans to launch its PCB01 in three capacities – 512 GB, 1 TB, and a pair of TB. The firm has beforehand disclosed that their 238L TLC NAND has a capability of 512Gbit, so these are typical capability figures for single-sided drives. And whereas the main focus of the corporate’s press launch this week was on OEM drives, this is similar controller and NAND that can be going into the corporate’s previously-teased retail Platinum P51 SSD, so this week’s reveal gives a bit extra element into what to anticipate from that drive household as effectively.
Specs apart, Ahn Hyun, the Head of the N-S Committee at SK hynix, stated that a number of international CPU suppliers for on-device AI PCs are in search of collaboration for the compatibility validation course of, which is underway, so count on PCB01 drives inside PCs on this back-to-school and vacation seasons.
“We will work towards enhancing our leadership as the global top AI memory provider also in the NAND solution space by successfully completing the customer validation and mass production of PCB01, which will be in the limelight,” Ahn Hyun stated.
