Items tagged with Silicon Motion

by Paul Lilly - Thu, Jul 28, 2022

Silicon Motion Announces MonTitan PCIe 5 SSD Controller For Lightning Fast 14GB/s SSDs

This year's Flash Memory Summit event is right around the corner, but storage makers aren't necessarily waiting to unveil their latest bleeding edge offerings. Silicon Motion sure isn't—it has announced its MonTitan (SM8366) solid state drive (SSD) controller to power blazing fast PCI Express 5.0 storage solutions in... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Sun, Feb 07, 2021

Silicon Motion Preps PCIe 5.0 SSD Controllers For Blistering Next Gen Storage

It may seem hard to believe, but storage makers are already approaching the limits of the PCI Express 4.0 bus in a typical NVMe drive, with the latest controller designs pushing transfer speeds in the neighborhood of 7 gigabytes per second (GB/s). That being the case, Silicon Motion is already at work developing... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Wed, Oct 21, 2020

Silicon Motion Debuts Three PCIe 4 SSD Controllers Supporting Up To 7,400MB/s

Following the release of the AMD Ryzen 3000 desktop processor family, and complementing X570 motherboards, PCIe 4.0 SSDs have been sought after by enthusiasts looking for some extra performance. There aren't many companies out there making PCIe 4.0 SSD controllers, so when new products are announced, we definitely... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Oct 08, 2013

Silicon Motion USB 3 Controller ClaimsTo Boost Thumb Drive Performance Significantly

USB 3.0 offers excellent performance characteristics for external storage, but thumb drives that take full advantage of the standard have been few and far between. According to Silicon Motion, its upcoming SM3267 controller will boost single-channel USB 3 speeds for flash drives to 160MB/s read, 60MB/s write, while... Read more...