Silicon Motion has started building PCIe Gen7 SSD controllers — samples expected in 2027

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

There’s a quiet race underway in the storage industry, and the finish line is PCIe Gen7. Silicon Motion, one of the biggest names in SSD controllers, says it has already started building one.

The company’s enterprise storage chief Alex Chou told Tom’s Hardware that the PCIe Gen7 controller’s architecture and deployment model are already defined. The target is to have an internal sample ready in the second half of 2027, with mass production following in roughly the same timeframe.

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Silicon Motion has started building PCIe Gen7 SSD controllers — samples expected in 2027