Samsung Introduces PM971-NVMe, A Mini-Scale SSD That Apple May Use

Just slightly bigger than a regular postage stamp, a mini-scale PM971-NVMe is bound to be produced by Samsung. The tech giant has made an announcement recently highlighting its plan to start producing a non-volatile memory technology, an SSD controller, DRAM, and a NAND flash memory packed into one card.

The PM971-NVMe is designed to work on thin-and-light laptops. Another interesting feature of this latest Samsung product is that it is also made compatible with Macbook and another device that are compact or space-constrained. The product has 18 different chips placed in one ball grid array package. The volume is astonishingly 1/100th of a regular 2.55 inch big SSD card, although the surface area is only about 20% of its size.

Samsung's Senior Vice President of Memory Product Planning and Application Engineering Team, Mr. Lee Jung Bae, mentioned that the production of such tiny SSD would assist companies in their intent to launch slimmer computing devices. In addition, this would likewise provide consumers a more reliable and satisfactory computing tools and environment.  The latest Samsung SSD package will feature an in-house controller with a16 offered 48-layer 256-gigabit V-NAND flash chips.

As per the report released by Samsung, the latest SSD produce exceeds the transfer speeds that are currently supported by the SATA 6GB/s protocol. Using Samsung's own technology called the TurboWrite, the read and write pace may reach up to a staggering 1,500 megabytes per one second and also 900MB per second.  To illustrate an example, the Samsung executive mentioned that a 5GB-heavy movie file can be transferred quickly in just three seconds and can be downloaded only six seconds.

After the unveiling of the said product, Apple is said to also develop a much thinner Macbook Pro at the latter part of 2016. This would potentially mean that they may use the latest SSD product of Samsung.