Samsung talked about its subsequent gen storage applied sciences throughout a keynote on the Flash Reminiscence Summit 2022. Through the Santa Clara Conference Middle occasion, the South Korean electronics large touched on what it payments as transformative expertise coming to a variety of units from the information heart to your pocket.
Starting with its large weapons, Samsung launched its descriptively named ‘Petabyte Storage’ expertise. With this advance, Samsung says {that a} single server unit will have the ability to pack in over a petabyte of storage. Thus, server producers will have the ability to present denser storage options. Further advantages anticipated from needing fewer servers embrace decrease energy utilization and whole price of possession.
The following advance outlined by Samsung may be extra fascinating to PC tech followers, because it sounds extra more likely to drip right down to the prosumer / creator / high-end gamer sphere within the not-too-distant future. Samsung’s new ‘Reminiscence-Semantic SSD’ mixes the agency’s newest
flash NAND storage, plus high-speed DRAM, working collectively by way of the CXL cache-coherent protocol. We don’t know what CXL model Samsung makes use of right here, however it would allow the hybrid NAND/DRAM machine to ship “as much as a 20x enchancment in each random learn pace and latency when utilized in AI and ML functions,” in accordance with Samsung’s check outcomes. The comparatively small DRAM portion of Samsung’s ‘Reminiscence-semantic SSDs’ is hinted at by the assertion that they work notably effectively in workloads utilizing smaller information units.
Samsung additionally shared some up to date information relating to its cutting-edge cell and PC storage. For cell, Samsung let or not it’s recognized that
UFS 4.0 storage would enter mass manufacturing later this month. It reckons UFS 4.0, which doubles the speeds from UFS 3.1, goes to be vital characteristic of upcoming flagship smartphones, in addition to different cell units, VR, and AR devices.
One other milestone celebrated by Samsung throughout the Flash Reminiscence Summit 2022, was the market availability of the trade’s first PCIe 5.0 SSD, the Samsung PM1743. We first heard about this subsequent gen enterprise SSD from Samsung simply forward of the New 12 months. This spectacular drive is claimed to supply as much as 13,000 MB/s and a couple of,500K IOPS of sequential and random learn efficiency, respectively.
