New Data Center NVMe SSD from PetaIO
With PCIe Gen6, CXL powered by a new SSD controller
By Philippe Nicolas | May 11, 2026 at 2:00 pmPetaIO, a venture-backed company headquartered in Nanjing, China, was established in 2016.
The firm specializes in enterprise-grade storage controllers and end-to-end data solutions, offering several NVMe SSD product lines designed for data center environments.
The company’s most significant recent development came at MemoryS 2026 in China, where PetaIO unveiled its PCIe Gen6 NVMe SSD roadmap. The new platform incorporates PCIe 6.0 and AI technology integration alongside CXL 3.0 support, targeting data center deployments and built on a new controller architecture.
Central to the announcement is the Titanium Himalaya controller. Fabricated on a 6nm process node, PetaIO describes it as delivering sequential read throughput exceeding 28 GB/s, purpose-built for AI inference and vector retrieval workloads. The company also claims random read performance reaching 50 million IOPS at 512-byte block sizes and latency as low as 2.7µs.
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