PMC-Sierra Intros NVMe, PCIe Tech To Speed SSD Performance
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based PMC-Sierra unveiled what it termed the industry’s first PCIe storage switches and the world’s fastest SSD controllers. SSDs based on PMC's new second-generation Flashes NVMe controllers can deliver 1 million IOPS and over 20 TB of flash capacity. To enable the pooling of such high-performance, low-latency drives, the company also unveiled its new Switches PS PCIe storage switches. These switches let PCIe-SSD-based systems scale with resiliency, programmability and advanced diagnostics. Together, Switches PCIe storage switches and Flashes PCIe controllers provide an end-to-end solution.