It's no secret that Silicon Motion is preparing its SM2508 PCIe 5.0 SSD controller to power the best SSDs. The company shared more information on SM2508 at the Memory Trend Seminar 2023 event in Shenzhen, China.
A previous roadmap showed that the SM2508 would be made on a 12nm manufacturing process. Silicon Motion has officially confirmed that the upcoming PCIe 5.0 SSD controller leverages the TSMC's 6nm EUV manufacturing process. The SM2508 is on a more advanced process node than the competition, such as the PS5026-E26 and the Innogrit IG5666 PCIe 5.0 SSD controllers on the 12nm process node. The 6nm process node offers a 45% power reduction compared to the 12nm process node, and up to 20% less logic cell area than the 7nm process node.
