Silicon Motion is already developing its first SSD controller for drives with a PCIe 6.0 interface. The new controller is called SM8466 and belongs to the MonTitan family of SSD controllers for datacenters and enterprise.
Wallace C. Kou, chief executive of Silicon Motion made the short announcement of the company's inaugural PCIe 6.0 SSD controller in his column for ChinaFlashMarket.com. The CEO of SMI did not reveal many details about the company's SM8466 PCIe Gen6 SSD controller, though we can make an educated guess that the chip will feature a PCIe 6.0 x4 interface and will aim for an up to 30.25 GB/s bandwidth in each direction, a 2X performance increase compared to drives with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface. Obviously, since we are dealing with a Mon Titan controller — and based on the naming scheme, we are indeed dealing with enterprise-oriented silicon — expect it to feature all the enterprise-grade security capabilities.
