MSI announce SPATIUM M580 FROZR PCIe Gen 5 SSD
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Up to 14.6GB and 12.7 GB/s sequential transfer speeds

MSI has unveiled its latest addition to the SPATIUM SSD lineup, the flagship SPATIUM M580 FROZR. Equipped with a rather large passive heatsink and coming in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities, the SPATIUM M580 FROZR has peak sequential read and write speeds of up to 14.6GB/s and 12.7GB/s, respectively.

Nvidia will release three new AI chips in China
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Will get around US regulations

Nvidia is planning to release three new chips for China, weeks after the US blocked it from selling two high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips and one of its top gaming chips to Chinese companies.

Seagate rolls out FireCuda 530 PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD at SG21
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Phison controller and Micron's 3D TLC NAND

During SG1, Seagate has unveiled its latest flagship SSD, the FireCuda PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD, reaching a sequential performance of up to 7,300/6,900 MB/s, thanks to Phison controller and 176L 3D TLC NAND.

Samsung 980 Pro 2TB listed on Amazon.com
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Already out of stock

Samsung's 980 Pro has only lately become available in 2TB capacity option, and while it is listed on Amazon.com, it is currently out of stock, showing just how popular this M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive actually is.

ZADAK unveils Spark RGB PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe M.2 SSD
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Its first PCIe SSD comes with RGB and aluminum heatsink

ZADAK, which has been so far known for some rather interesting memory modules, has announced its first PCIe 3.0 SSD, the SPARK PCIe Gen 3x4 M.2 RGB SSD, which will be available in capacities of up to 2TB, and comex with a rather neat looking aluminum heatsink with RGB lighting.

ADATA working on three PCIe 4.0 consumer SSDs
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Pearl, Indigo, and Sage

It appears that there will be plenty of PCIe 4.0-based NVMe on the market soon, as ADATA is currently working on a total of three new PCIe 4.0 SSDs, called Pearl, Indigo, and Sage.

Samsung's 980 Pro PCIe Gen4 SSD spotted on CES 2020 floor
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With transfer speeds of up to 6,500MB/s

Samsung's 980 Pro PCIe Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSD has been pictured at the CES 2020 show, and it could come as soon as Q2 this year.

AMD confirms lack of PCIe 4.0 support on older motherboards
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Due to issues with some motherboards

AMD has confirmed that older chipset motherboards, based on X470, X370, B450, B350 and A320 chipsets, will lack support for PCIe 4.0, as there could be some issues with some motherboards.

Xilinx announced PCIe Alveo AI accelerator
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Data center beat Nvidia Volta on latency and inference  

The Xilinx CEO has just introduced a new product category called the Alveo PCIe based hardware accelerator that will challenge machine learning data center compute accelerators. It has dramatically better latency compared to Nvidia or AMD's GPU based solution, it's claimed.

Corsair increases its capacity
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With 3D TLC NAND and up to 960GB in capacity

Corsair has shown off its latest addition to the Force SSD series, the more mid-range oriented Force MP300.