Micron Technology, Inc. has introduced a new portfolio of innovative memory and storage solutions to complement the data needs of the artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data center with superior performance, capacity and energy efficiency.

The three new data center solid state drives (SSDs), all built with Micron G9 NAND, which the company said the first to utilize the industry’s 9^th generation 3D NAND node.

“With the industry’s first PCIe Gen6 SSD, industry-leading capacities and the lowest latency mainstream SSD—all powered by our first-to-market G9 NAND—Micron is not just setting the pace; we are redefining the frontier of data center innovation,” said Jeremy Werner, senior vice president and general manager of Micron’s Core Data Center Business Unit.

Supports Accelerated AI Computing

The first in Micron’s latest portfolio is the Micron 9650 SSD, which the company said is the first PCIe Gen6 data center SSD. Particularly, it has a performance of 28GB/sec, which can dramatically accelerate AI training and inference workloads.

Moreover, it has up to 5.5 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) random reads. Thus, the 9650 is purpose-built for AI pipelines’ high-throughput and low-latency demands.

During inference, high throughput and ultralow latency are essential to enable real-time data access for large models, such as enterprise agents with extended context windows and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. The 9650 offers superior performance per watt compared to Gen5 SSDs, achieving up to 25% and 67% better storage energy efficiency for random writes and reads, respectively. The reduction in power consumption and carbon emissions allows data centers to meet sustainability goals while enhancing performance.

Kevin Deierling, senior vice president of Networking at NVIDIA said PCIe Gen6SSDs like the Micron 9650 provides high-speed data access to support accelerated computing performance and efficiency for AI inference and training.

Breakthrough Scalability

Aside from Micron 9650 SSD, the latest portfolio from Micron also includes the Micron 6600 ION SSD, which delivers breakthrough scalability featuring up to 245TBs in a single drive. Thus, enabling hyperscale and enterprise data centers to consolidate server infrastructure and build massive AI data lakes — all while reducing storage footprint, energy and carbon emissions.

Meanwhile, the third model in the portfolio is the Micron 7600 SSD. Built on PCIe Gen5 SSD, the 7600 offers low latency and high reliability QoS to support predictable, lightning-fast responsiveness. Specifically, this complements demanding data center workloads like AI transformation, training, and inference.

Moreover, the 7600 SSD provides the right balance of affordability, performance and predictable latency for most data center workloads including AI.

Micron’s vertical integration ensures that each of these SSDs is designed and manufactured with a Micron controller, G9 NAND, DRAM, firmware and manufacturing processes. This integration helps provide exceptional quality and a more reliable, secure supply chain.

31 July 2025