Intel has revealed SSDs with a NVM-Express bus targeted at gamers and other high-end applications. The successor of SATA uses the PCI-E 3.0 bus and has been specifically designed for SSDs from the ground up.
Intel showcased prototypes of the NVM-E SSDs on the Pax East event that took place last weekend. Details and specifications of the drives haven't been disclosed yet. The showcased SSDs were a PCI-E and a relative thick 2.5" SSD with SATA-Express interface with capacities of 1.2TB and 400GB respectively.
The NVM-Express interface is the successor of SATA and uses PCI-Express interconnects. The standard should provide low latencies and benefit from the parallelism of solid state memory. An Intel spokesman stated that the performance of the drive is about 4 times higher than for SATA-3 SSDs, which in practice are able to achieve maximum read speeds of 550MB/s.
The SSDs will be officially revealed in about 3 weeks according to a special promopage with countdown that Intel has put online.
