New Silicon Motion SM2524XT chip brings 14 GB/s to mainstream SSDs — 6nm DRAMless controller boasts heavy AI PC optimization and slashes KV cache latency

Silicon Motion unveiled the SM2524XT, a four-channel DRAMless SSD controller built on a 6nm-class process with PCIe 5.0 x4.

It targets mainstream drives with up to 14 GB/s sequential reads, about 2.5 million random IOPS, and support for NAND up to 4,800 MT/s.

The controller is tuned to reduce latency and improve fragmented read/write performance for AI inference and KV cache workloads.

Silicon Motion plans to show prototype drives at Computex, with retail products expected no earlier than next year.