BOISE, July 28 — Micron Technology, Inc. has unveiled the Micron 9550 NVMe™ SSD, the world’s fastest data center SSD, setting a new standard in AI workload performance and power efficiency. This innovative SSD integrates Micron’s controller, NAND, DRAM, and firmware, offering class-leading performance with 14.0 GB/s sequential reads and 10.0 GB/s sequential writes, significantly outperforming competitive SSDs.
With exceptional random read and write speeds, the Micron 9550 SSD is designed to meet the demands of AI applications, offering up to 33% faster workload completion times and 60% faster feature aggregation in GNN training with Big Accelerator Memory (BaM). Micron’s 9550 SSD also excels in power efficiency, consuming up to 43% less power in AI workloads such as GNN and LLM training.
Alvaro Toledo, vice president and general manager of Micron’s Data Center Storage group, emphasized the SSD’s groundbreaking performance and efficiency, reinforcing Micron’s commitment to advancing AI technology. The 9550 SSD features advanced security capabilities and is available in capacities ranging from 3.2TB to 30.72TB, supporting flexible and scalable designs for modern data center needs.
