FMS: Silicon Motion MonTitan PCIe Gen5x4 SSD Solution Platform

Silicon Motion Technology Corp. announces MonTitan, a PCIe Gen5 SSD solution platform suited for the datacenter and enterprise applications.

MonTitan with SM8366

The MonTitan platform features an new, purpose-built ASIC and FW architecture, optimized for performance and QoS. Its Layered FW stack enables the development of customer differentiated solutions with a high degree of flexibility and accelerated time to market, all while reducing engineering cost.

“SSD storage solutions are evolving to address new challenges in data centers which demand changes in storage platforms and operating models,” said Nelson Duann, SVP, marketing and R&D. “Our MonTitan SSD solution is an innovative PCIe Gen5 SSD platform designed to satisfy the unique demands of datacenters today while providing flexibility and programmability to meet future evolving standards.”

MonTitan is a high-performance, user-programmable PCIe Gen5 platform utilizing the firm‘s 3rd Generation NVMe controller family, the SM8366, supporting OCP Datacenter NVMe SSD and NVMe 2.0 specs. Leveraging proprietary PerformaShape and NANDCommand technology, it delivers performance and QoS with industry security.

MonTitan SSD solution platform features proprietary technology such as:

• PerformaShape provides ASIC-based QoS sets using HW isolation to ensure maximum BW performance while maximizing user defined individual performance elements (QoS, Latency, RR/RW, power).
• NANDCommand maximizes the enterprise performance of next gen NAND geometries with LDPC error correction and endurance extension for QLC and beyond. 

“Silicon Motion’s launch of the MonTitan SSD solutions platform provides an interesting development vehicle with their Layered FW stack and flexible architecture to enable application-oriented solutions like QLC and ZNS SSDs. Alibaba has interest to further evaluate these solutions,” said Feng Zhu, director, engineering and architect, Alibaba Cloud.

“Next generation technologies such as PCIe 5.0, OCP Datacenter NVMe SSD Specification and E1.S are hyperscale needs to enable performance, thermals and management at scale. The Silicon Motion MonTitan platform supports PCIe 5.0, OCP Datacenter NVMe 2.0 SSD Specification and E1.S to meet the next generation hyperscale requirements,” said Ross Stenfort, hardware system engineer, Meta.

The MonTitan SM8366 ASIC is a dual-ported enterprise and data Center PCIe Gen5 x4 NVMe controller with 16 channels supporting up to 2,400MT/s. It provides fast 4K sequential (> 14GB/s) and random (>3.0 million IO/s) SSD performance and contains a scalable single/dual channel 40b DDR4-3200/DDR5-4800 DRAM interface. The SM8366 with the MonTitan platform unleashes the potential once limited by SSD storage architecture, providing flexible, high-integrity solutions to enable a new standard of data center SSD design.

“We would like to congratulate Silicon Motion on their successful launch of the SM8366 SSD controller and the high performance PCIe Gen5 MonTitan Platform,” said Atsushi Inoue, senior director, memory division, Kioxia Corporation. “Silicon Motion’s user programmable and feature-rich platform will enable a broad range of applications by bringing out our BiCS FLASH and XL-FLASH potential and opening up new opportunities to our mutual enterprise and data center customers.”

“It is great to be working with Silicon Motion and their PCIe 5.0 MonTitan platform to enable our industry leading flash in their turnkey solutions,” said Daniel Doyle, director, NAND component marketing, Micron Technology, Inc. “This collaboration enables our mutual customers to deploy the world’s most advanced flash, including Micron’s 176-layer QLC, to increase performance and density in customer solutions.”

“We are pleased that Silicon Motion launched the PCIe Gen5 MonTitan SSD Platform. As a leading flash memory provider and core value contributor, YMTC will co-work with Silicon Motion’s MonTitan platform to build a better future of memory eco-system enabled with YMTC’s next generation NAND technologies,” said Frank Fan, head, product management, YMTC (Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp).

The MonTitan SSD platform comprised of the SM8366 standards-based ‘Reference Hardware Design Kits’ and licensable ‘Turnkey and Layered firmware stacks’, will be sampling to early engagement partners in 4Q22.

Silicon Motion will display the MonTitan SSD solution platform on August 2-4 at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, CA.