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 mostly 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 business curiosity in something and all the pieces AI.
The naked, OEM-focused drives have beforehand been proven off by SK hynix, and make no try to cover what’s underneath the hood. The PCB01 depends on SK hynix’s Alistar controller, which contains 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 presents a most switch velocity of 2400 MT/second. Being that it is 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 5.0 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 high 12GB/second (with pSLC caching, after all) – efficiency figures effectively inside the realm of risk for an 8 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 may be very excessive as effectively. The SSDs are additionally stated to eat as much as 30% much less energy than ‘predecessors,’ in accordance with SK hynix, although the corporate did not elaborate on that determine. Usually within the storage business, power figures are primarily based on iso-performance (relatively than peak efficiency) – basically measuring power effectivity per bit relatively than toal energy consumption – and that’s doubtless the case right here as effectively.
At the very least initially, SK Hynix plans to launch its PCB01 in three capacities – 512 GB, 1 TB, and a pair of TB. The corporate 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 presents 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 world CPU suppliers for on-device AI PCs are looking for 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 are going to work in the direction of enhancing our management as the worldwide high AI reminiscence supplier additionally within the NAND resolution area by efficiently finishing the client validation and mass manufacturing of PCB01, which can be within the limelight,” Ahn Hyun stated.
