For its part, Samsung is also focusing on producing SSDs that take advantage of the PCIe 6.0 interface. The goal? To catch up with Micron and offer this type of SSD in the second half of the year. If everything goes according to plan, the Korean company could even accompany the launch of NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin and AMD’s MI455X, which are scheduled for this period.
PCIe 6.0 SSDs coming soon from Samsung!
Of course, the advantage of this new interface standard lies mainly in the transfer speeds it offers. As the standard specifies, this sixth generation of PCIe doubles the speeds compared to PCIe 5.0. This means we are moving from 4 GB/s per lane to 8 GB/s. If we take a PCIe x4 interface, this gives us a theoretical throughput of 32 GB/s compared to the current 16 GB/s.
Inevitably, manufacturers are using this argument to woo players in the artificial intelligence sector. During training, AI models handle large volumes of data, which requires high bandwidth. Samsung and Micron do not want storage to be a bottleneck and are therefore busy deploying storage solutions that use this interface.
Of course, Samsung is following in the footsteps of Micron, which seems to have taken a slight lead. In fact, the American company already unveiled products compatible with this interface last July, without us knowing where they stood in terms of production. We now know that Micron has already started production.
This inevitably puts pressure on the Korean company, which must work hard to catch up. The goal here is to be ready for the second half of 2026 to support the launch of new AI cards with its PM1763.
As for the consumer sector, this type of storage is not likely to arrive anytime soon, since our mainstream motherboards are not even equipped with this type of interface. In our opinion, we will have to wait a few more years.
