[News] Micron Launches G9 NAND SSDs for AI, Ships Samples of World’s First PCIe Gen6 NVMe

Micron has launched three breakthrough data center SSDs built on its G9 NAND platform, cementing its storage leadership. The new lineup, according to its press release, delivers the world’s first PCIe Gen6 NVMe SSD, industry-leading E3.S capacity, and the lowest-latency mainstream Gen5 SSD designed for AI data centers.

Micron 9650 SSD: The world’s first PCIe Gen6 data center SSD

According to Micron, the unmatched 28 GB/s performance of the 9650 SSD dramatically accelerates AI training and inference workloads. The 9650 offers superior performance per watt compared to Gen5 SSDs, achieving up to 25% and 67% better storage energy efficiency for random writes and reads, respectively.

As per Tom’s Hardware, Micron has showcased its 9650 SSDs with Astera Labs and Broadcom at events like Computex, highlighting peer-to-peer PCIe 6.0 speeds of 64 GT/s with NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs—enabled by Astera or Broadcom’s retimers and switches, all without CPU involvement. This setup, according to the report, is key for both AI training and inference.

Micron 6600 ION SSD: Massive density with the best-in-class space efficiency for AI data lakes

On the other hand, the Micron 6600 ION SSD delivers breakthrough scalability featuring up to 245TBs in a single drive, enabling hyperscale and enterprise data centers to consolidate server infrastructure and build massive AI data lakes — all while reducing storage footprint, energy and carbon emissions. This offering increases storage density up to 67% over the competition and delivers over 88PB per rack using servers, drastically reducing TCO.

Micron 7600 SSD: Leading performance for AI inference and mixed workloads

The 7600 PCIe Gen5 SSD offers class-leading performance, low latency and high-reliability QoS to support predictable, lightning-fast responsiveness for demanding data center workloads like AI transformation, training and inference. Capable of delivering industry-best sub-1 millisecond latency on the taxing RocksDB workload, the 7600 SSD is ideal for workloads where response time is critical. The 7600 SSD provides the right balance of affordability, performance and predictable latency for most data center workloads including AI.

According to Micron, the 9650 and 7600 SSD samples are shipping now to customers. On the other hand, the 6600 ION 122TB SSD samples are shipping later in the third quarter of 2025, while the 245TB SSD version of the 6600 ION SSD is planned to be available in the first half of 2026.

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