Micron Launches New Data Center SSD with Industry-Leading Performance

Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) today announced the launch of the Micron 9550 NVMe™ SSD, a data center SSD that delivers industry-leading performance, superior AI workload performance and energy efficiency.1 The ^Micron 9550 SSD integrates Micron’s own controller, NAND, DRAM and firmware, demonstrating Micron’s deep expertise and innovation. This integrated solution brings industry-leading performance, energy efficiency and security to data center operators.

The Micron 9550 SSD delivers outstanding performance with a sequential read rate of 14.0 GB/s and a sequential write rate of 10.0 GB/s, which is up to 67% higher than similar SSDs in the industry, bringing industry-leading performance to demanding workloads such as AI. In addition, its random read rate reaches 3,300 KIOPS, up to 35% higher than competing products, and its random write rate reaches 400 KIOPS, up to 33% higher than competing products.

AI workloads require high-performance storage solutions. The 9550 SSD unlocks exceptional performance for AI use cases with its superior sequential and random read and write rates. For example, large language models (LLMs) require high sequential read rates, while graph neural networks (GNNs) require high random read performance. The Micron 9550 SSD excels in key AI workloads, reducing workload completion time by up to 33% and accelerating feature aggregation by up to 60% in GNN training with Big Accelerator Memory (BaM). ² In addition, the Micron 9550 SSD delivers up to 34% higher throughput for NVIDIA Magnum IO™ GPUDirect® Storage. ³

“ The Micron 9550 SSD marks a significant leap forward for data center storage, delivering an incredible 3.3 million IOPS while consuming up to 43% less power than competing SSDs for AI workloads such as GNN and LLM training. This combination of higher performance and exceptional power efficiency sets a new standard for AI storage solutions and demonstrates Micron’s unwavering commitment to leading the AI ​​revolution.”

“Improving data center efficiency and performance for AI workloads is critical to reducing costs and ensuring operational reliability for businesses around the world. By integrating NVIDIA technology, the Micron 9550 SSD provides powerful storage support for AI. ”

“Innovation in storage technology is critical for latency-sensitive workloads such as AI and mission-critical enterprise applications. Our deep collaboration with Micron and partners across the ecosystem will ensure the new 9550 SSD is fully utilized on AMD EPYC-based servers.”

“Intel is pleased to see Micron enter the PCIe 5.0 market with the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD. ^This PCIe ^5.0 SSD is compatible with Intel’s PCIe 5.0 processor platforms, specifically the 4th Gen Intel ^{Xeon ,} 5th Gen Intel ^Xeon and Intel ^Xeon 6 processors . Micron is an important ecosystem partner to Intel and has a long history of providing well-integrated PCIe solutions for Intel-based platforms, including solutions that support Intel Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel VROC). ^In addition ^{, PCIe} 5.0 compatibility allows for seamless integration of the Intel Gaudi AI Accelerator, boosting performance and expanding the capabilities of AI systems. ”

The Micron 9550 SSD delivers industry-leading energy efficiency and excels in supporting a wide range of AI workloads, including ^:

● GNN training using BaM:

Reduce SSD average power consumption by up to 43% and overall system power consumption by up to 29%

● NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage:

SSD energy consumption reduced by up to 81% for every TB of data transferred

● MLPerf:

Reduce SSD power consumption by up to 35% and system power consumption by up to 13%

● Fine-tuning Llama LLM training using Microsoft DeepSpeed:

Up to 21% less SSD energy consumption