SK hynix and Solidigm Announced Collaborative Product P5530 Up to 4TB eSSD

SK hynix, Inc. and Solidigm jointly introduced their first collaborative product, the P5530, an enterprise eSSD.

This limited release product highlights the emerging partnership between the 2 companies, which formed 3 months ago when SK hynix acquired Intel’s NAND and SSD business.

First collaborative product
The P5530 combines SK hynix’s 128-layer 4D NAND flash with Solidigm’s SSD controller ^(*) and firmware supporting a PCIe ^(*) Gen 4 interface. The product is offered in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacity. The 2 firms worked together to optimize performance with specific data center use cases and targeted deployments in mind.

Since the launch of Solidigm, the companies have partnered to forge a forward-moving strategy and co-develop products while reinforcing common values across the companies. Through the ongoing partnership and collaboration with Solidigm, SK hynix expects to enhance its NAND flash business competitiveness to the same extent as its DRAM business.

“With in-time demonstration of the collaborative product based on the combined competence of SK hynix and Solidigm, we aim to not only enhance our NAND flash business competitiveness but also speed up our ‘Inside America’ strategy,” said Kevin (Jongwon) Noh, president and CMO, SK hynix. “SK hynix and Solidigm will continue to partner in order to optimize both companies’ operations to create greater synergies.”

“In our early days of Solidigm, we’re pleased to be forming a strong collaboration with SK hynix. Together, we’re united in optimizing our products to provide unparalleled solutions for our customers. The P5530 is just the first example of what will come from our industry-defining partnership as we solidify our leadership across the NAND industry and create a new paradigm for solid state storage,” said Rob Crooke, CEO, Solidigm.

^(*) Controller: A chip that assists the mainboard and the oOS of a computing system to recognize and utilize NAND flash memory as a storage device
^(*) PCIe: a high-speed input/output series interface used in the mainboard of digital devices; such interface, which is a technology to connect storage devices, can support more than 8GB/s of data transfer