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5 August 2025 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) is committed to developing innovative memory and storage solutions that deliver exceptional performance, capacity, and energy efficiency to meet the data demands of AI-driven data centres. Today, Micron officially announced the launch of three data centre SSDs based on Micron G9 NAND, further solidifying its leading position in the storage industry. This expanded product portfolio includes several industry firsts, such as the world's first PCIe 6.0 NVMe™ SSD, the industry's highest-capacity E3.S SSD, and the lowest-latency mainstream PCIe 5.0 SSD specifically designed for AI data centres. 1 These new products offer exceptional performance, energy efficiency, and compact design, and have been jointly validated by leading ecosystem partners to accelerate product certification processes and ensure seamless integration, making them an ideal choice for addressing the diverse demands of AI workloads.

Jeremy Werner, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Micron's Core Data Centre Business Unit, stated: "By introducing the industry's first PCIe 6.0 SSD, leading-edge storage capacity, and the lowest-latency mainstream SSD, coupled with the first-to-market G9 NAND, Micron is not only setting trends but redefining the standards for data centre innovation. This launch further solidifies our leadership position in the data centre SSD market and ushers in a new era of performance, density, and energy efficiency for our customers."

Micron 9650 SSD: The World's First PCIe 6.0 Data Centre SSD

The Micron 9650 SSD delivers exceptional performance of up to 28 GB/s, significantly accelerating AI training and inference workloads. During inference, high throughput and ultra-low latency are critical for supporting real-time data access for large models, such as enterprise agents with expanded context windows and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows. Compared to PCIe 5.0 SSDs, the 9650 SSD offers superior performance per watt, with storage efficiency improvements of up to 25% for random writes and 67% for random reads. By reducing power consumption and carbon emissions, this product helps data centres achieve sustainability goals while further enhancing performance.

Breakthrough performance of PCIe 6.0:

Sequential read speeds of up to 28 GB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 14 GB/s

Random read speeds of up to 5.5 MIOPS and random write speeds of up to 900 KIOPS

Actively promoting ecosystem collaboration, including public interoperability verification with partners such as Astera Labs and Broadcom, and accelerating industry adoption.

Supporting liquid cooling for advanced AI servers with E1.S models.

Arunkumar Narayanan, Senior Vice President of Computing and Networking at Dell Technologies Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), stated: The Micron 9650 SSD delivers random read performance of up to 5.5 MIOPS, specifically designed to meet the high throughput and low latency requirements of AI pipelines. This product helps ensure that GPUs continuously access data, minimising idle cycles and enhancing overall system efficiency. Combined with Dell's advanced server architecture, this innovation will help businesses achieve superior performance and deeper insights."

NVIDIA Senior Vice President of Networking Kevin Deierling stated: ‘Advanced AI inference workloads require agents to quickly access vast amounts of enterprise and internet data. PCIe 6.0 SSDs like the Micron 9650 SSD enable high-speed data access, significantly enhancing the computational performance and efficiency of AI inference and training tasks.’

Micron 6600 ION SSD: Ultra-high density and exceptional space efficiency for AI data lakes

The Micron 6600 ION SSD offers breakthrough scalability with a maximum capacity of 245TB per drive, enabling hyperscale deployments and enterprise-class data centres to consolidate server infrastructure, build large AI data lakes, while reducing storage space, energy consumption, and carbon emissions. Compared to competitors, this product achieves a 67% increase in storage density, with single-rack storage capacity exceeding 88PB, significantly reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).

The industry-leading 122TB E3.S SSD is as small as a deck of cards yet delivers 2.4PB of PCIe 5.0 flash storage capacity in a 1U server.

The 122TB 6600 ION consumes just 1 watt per 4.9TB, achieving a 37% improvement in energy efficiency compared to three 36TB HDDs providing the same capacity, while occupying less than a quarter of the space.

When deployed at a scale of 2EB of storage, the 6600 ION SSD can save up to 3.4 MWh of energy consumption daily compared to an HDD solution, equivalent to the average daily electricity consumption of 124 American households.

The 6600 ION SSD supports advanced enterprise-level security features, offering exceptional data protection capabilities.

Michael McNerney, Vice President of Marketing and Cybersecurity at Supermicro, stated: Supermicro offers the industry's broadest portfolio of Petascale storage-optimised servers, supporting up to 36 E3.S SSDs. When combined with Micron's 6600 ION SSD, this enables up to 4.42PB of capacity in a 2U server, delivering higher density and energy efficiency for large-scale AI workloads. Through our collaboration with Micron, we provide customers with highly integrated, energy-efficient solutions that optimise total cost of ownership (TCO)."

WEKA Chief Product Officer Ajay Singh commented: "The Micron 6600 ION SSD represents a major breakthrough in AI infrastructure, with its exceptional capacity and performance enabling WEKA customers to manage and process larger datasets with fewer infrastructure investments and lower energy consumption. The Micron 9650 PCIe 6.0 SSD is equally exciting, seamlessly integrating with our Augmented Memory Grid™ technology to accelerate GPU memory expansion via ultra-high-speed NVMe, reduce first token generation time, enhance token throughput, and help avoid memory wall issues in high-throughput inference environments."

Micron 7600 SSD: Leading performance for AI inference and mixed workloads

The 7600 PCIe 5.0 SSD delivers industry-leading performance, low latency, and highly reliable service quality (QoS), providing stable and reliable ultra-fast response for high-demand data centre workloads such as AI data conversion, model training, and inference. The Micron 7600 SSD achieves industry-leading sub-millisecond latency under highly complex RocksDB workloads, making it an ideal choice for workloads with extremely stringent response time requirements. The Micron 7600 SSD strikes an excellent balance between cost-effectiveness, performance, and predictable latency, making it widely applicable to most data centre workloads, including AI.

· The Micron 7600 SSD delivers sequential read speeds of up to 12 GB/s, outperforming mainstream SSDs in its class, and excels in the following metrics:

o   Sequential write speeds increased by 27% to 7 GB/s

o Random read performance improved by 5%, reaching 2.1 MIOPS

o Random write performance improved by 100%, reaching 400 KIOPS

· Compared to other PCIe 5.0 SSDs, the Micron 7600 SSD demonstrates leading performance and energy efficiency in RocksDB workloads

CoreWeave Chief Product Officer Chetan Kapoor stated, ‘CoreWeave is committed to pushing the boundaries of performance to help customers maximise infrastructure efficiency. With its exceptional performance and ultra-low latency, the Micron 7600 SSD will be a preferred choice, enabling customers to scale to hundreds of GB-level data throughput and significantly accelerate time-to-market.’

Micron Technology leverages its vertically integrated advantage to ensure that every SSD in its portfolio uses proprietary controllers, G9 NAND, DRAM, firmware, and manufacturing processes. This integration helps deliver exceptional product quality and build a more reliable and secure supply chain. Additionally, the product features several key security features, including a hardware root of trust, SPDM 1.2 certification for authentication and firmware verification, dual-signed PKI/LMS firmware binary files compliant with the CNSA 2.0 standard, self-encrypting drives (SEDs), and Micron's Secure Execution Environment, all of which help ensure data security. The Micron 9650 SSD and 6600 ION SSD are compatible with the OCP 2.6 specification, while the 7600 SSD is compatible with the OCP 2.5 specification.

Availability

The Micron 9650 SSD and 7600 SSD are now available for sampling. The 9650 SSD is available in two form factors: E3.S and E1.S (with optional 9.5mm and 15mm thickness versions), and includes air-cooling and liquid-cooling options.

The Micron 7600 SSD is available in multiple form factors, including E3.S, U.2, and E1.S with air-cooling options.

The Micron 6600 ION 122TB SSD is expected to begin sampling in the third quarter of 2025, offering E3.S and U.2 form factors. The 6600 ION 245TB SSD version is expected to be available in the first half of 2026.

Industry Quotes

Raghu Nambiar, Vice President of Data Centre Ecosystem and Solutions at AMD, stated: ‘As AI workloads continue to reshape infrastructure requirements, Micron's advanced storage technology underscores the importance of high-speed, efficient storage. Through close engineering collaboration with Micron, we ensure that their storage innovations fully unlock the potential of AMD's next-generation server platforms. Together, we will deliver the performance, scalability, and efficiency required for today's most demanding enterprise applications.’

Thad Omura, Chief Business Officer at Astera Labs, commented: "From the expanding scale of cutting-edge models to the widespread adoption of intelligent systems, the rapid advancement of AI demands a leap in data transfer capabilities. To fully unlock the potential of rack-scale computing and accelerate AI breakthroughs, next-generation PCI Express technology is critical, as it not only enhances throughput but also improves overall system efficiency and power-to-performance ratios. We have successfully validated end-to-end interoperability between Micron's 9650 SSD and Astera's Scorpio P-series fabric switches and Aries Smart PCIe 6.0 retimers. This breakthrough achievement will provide critical support for building high-bandwidth, low-latency infrastructure for large-scale AI applications."

Marvell Vice President and General Manager of the Connectivity Business Unit, Wang Xi, stated: "The interoperability testing between Micron's new 9650 SSD and the Marvell® Alaska P PCIe 6.0 retimer marks a key milestone in advancing the PCIe 6.0 ecosystem and provides strong support for our joint development efforts targeting hyperscale customers. By combining high-performance, energy-efficient SSDs with the powerful link extension capabilities of PCIe retimers, we can overcome the physical limitations between computing and storage, offering customers flexible options to optimise various AI workloads."