Silicon Motion's SM2508 for Thin and Light Notebooks

TapTechNews June 8th news, according to the dynamics of the official WeChat public account of Silicon Motion and the reports of media Tom'sHardware and BenchLife.info, Silicon Motion stated that the solid-state drive based on its flagship PCIe Gen5 consumer-level master SM2508 is expected to be compatible with thin and light notebooks.

Silicon Motion said that SM2508 under the blessing of the new generation of interfaces, can reach a continuous (sequential) read speed of 15GB/s.

Both Tom'sHardware and BenchLife.info mentioned in the reports that Silicon Motion claimed that the flagship PCIe Gen5 solid-state solution equipped with the SM2508 master controller can control the power consumption at about 7 watts.

In other words, the solid-state drive based on this master controller will be expected to get rid of the dependence on the large metal heat dissipation solution and seamlessly integrate into the design of thin and light notebooks (TapTechNews note: quoted from the article of Silicon Motion's WeChat public account).

The Silicon Motion SM2508 master controller adopts the TSMC 6nm process, includes 4 Arm Cortex-R8 processor cores, and supports (LP)DDR4 external cache.

It adopts an eight-flash memory channel architecture, compatible with flash memory particles with a rate of up to 3600 MT/s, and the random read and write rate can reach 2500 MIOPS.

The maximum power consumption of this master controller in the active mode is 3.5 watts, and the power consumption in the PS4 sleep state is only 2.5 mW.

BenchLife.info said in the report that Silicon Motion has recently successively sampled the SM2508 master controller to downstream customers; Tom'sHardware said that related products are expected to be launched in the fourth quarter.

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