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AI bottleneck shifts to servers, pushing faster eSSD testing
Investment in AI data centres is expanding from high-bandwidth memory to enterprise SSDs, with prices for 30TB to 64TB drives up more than 50 percent. As capacity and NAND layers rise, burn-in and final tests take longer and inspection becomes a bottleneck, driving demand for higher-parallelism, PCIe 5.0-capable equipment. New testing needs are also emerging around CXL 2.0 memory pooling and switching, prompting shipments of dedicated testers.
AI & Enterprise
Dowoo Information to supply YMTC consumer SSD brand ZHITAI in South Korea
IT distributor Dowoo Information said on Thursday it signed an official distribution agreement in South Korea with ZHITAI, the consumer storage brand of NAND flash memory maker YMTC, and will launch a next-generation PCIe SSD lineup. The products include PCIe 5.0 models TiPro9000 and TiPlus9100, and the PCIe 4.0 TiPlus7100s. The company said competition is intensifying as AMD and Intel platforms support PCIe 5.0 SSDs.
Industry
Solidigm 122TB enterprise SSD price triples in a year
Solidigm’s largest-capacity enterprise SSD, the 122.88TB D5-P5336, has jumped about 200 percent in price within nine months of going on sale, according to TechRadar. The drive, aimed at servers, storage arrays and data centres, now sells for $37,128 versus a launch price of $12,399. The per-terabyte cost has climbed to about $302. Limited production of ultra-high-capacity NAND and enterprise contract-based pricing are cited as drivers of volatility.