Samsung Begins Mass Production of PM1763 PCIe 6.0 SSD for AI and HPC Servers

Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it has begun mass production of the PM1763, a PCIe 6.0 enterprise solid-state drive designed for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing servers, as storage vendors race to remove bottlenecks in next-generation data centers.

The move matters because AI training and inference systems must move huge amounts of data quickly between storage and compute. Faster enterprise SSDs are becoming a core part of server design as chipmakers and cloud companies build systems to keep increasingly powerful accelerators fed with data. PCIe 6.0, finalized in 2022, roughly doubles per-lane bandwidth over PCIe 5.0, helping explain why Gen6 drives are emerging as a new class of AI infrastructure hardware.

Samsung said the PM1763 uses its ninth-generation V-NAND and a newly developed 4-nanometer controller. The drive will be offered in 4 terabytes, 8 terabytes and 16 terabytes capacities. For the 16 TB model, Samsung said the PM1763 delivers up to 28,400 megabytes per second in sequential read speed and up to 21,900 MB/s in sequential write speed. The company said that is more than twice the performance of its previous-generation PM1753 enterprise SSD, a PCIe 5.0 product with published sequential-read speeds in the roughly 14,000-14,500 MB/s range. Samsung also said the new drive improves power efficiency by more than 1.8 times versus the PM1753.

Samsung is also emphasizing the operational demands of AI servers, not just peak benchmark numbers. The company said the PM1763 is optimized for liquid-cooled server environments using direct-to-chip cooling, a setup used in dense AI systems to manage heat and maintain sustained performance under heavy workloads. Samsung said the drive also supports post-quantum cryptography algorithms and the TEE Device Interface Security Protocol, or TDISP, for securing data pathways in virtualized environments.

The announcement is a significant product and market move for Samsung, but it is not a first-to-market moment. Micron said in an investor release on Feb. 12 that it had begun mass production of its 9650 PCIe Gen6 data-center SSD, meaning Samsung is joining an active market for next-generation enterprise storage rather than opening it. That competitive backdrop underscores how quickly Gen6 storage is becoming part of the broader AI infrastructure race.

Samsung said the PM1763 has “successfully completed validation for next-generation AI platforms,” though the company did not detail customers or deployments. “Built on industry-leading performance, PM1763 has successfully completed validation for next-generation AI platforms and is well positioned to support evolving AI infrastructure requirements,” said Jangseok Choi, vice president and head of memory product planning at Samsung Electronics.

With mass production now underway, Samsung is adding a PCIe 6.0 SSD to its data-center lineup at a time when server makers are looking beyond processors and accelerators to every component that can speed up AI systems, including the storage layer that feeds them.