SK hynix won the super large order of SSD storage from Facebook

SK hynix won the super large order of SSD storage from Facebook

SK hynix won the super large order of SSD storage from Facebook

SK hynix won the super large order of SSD hard disk: support PCIe 5.0 speed approaching 15GB/s

Facebook plans to build a world-class AI supercomputing center.

The GPU selected NVIDIA’s DGX A100 system, with a total of 16,000 GPUs, and the storage system was purchased from SK Hynix.

Players will supply hundreds of millions of dollars worth of PCIe 5.0 hard drives with speeds approaching 15GB/s.

According to Korean media reports, Meta and SK Hynix have reached an important purchase agreement, the main content has been negotiated, and now the main content is adjusted.

In this agreement, Meta will purchase hundreds of millions of dollars worth of NVMe SSD hard drives from SK hynix. The exact number is unknown, but the specifications are very advanced.

Among them, SK hynix supplies flash memory, but their main control chip has average performance and uses Head of South Korean startup FADU.

In addition to the master controller of PCIe 4.0/PCIe 3.0 technology, FADU is also one of the few companies that launched PCIe 5.0 master controller.

Its 16 -channel FC5161 master chip is very powerful, supports PCIe 5.0 x4 , NVMe 1.4 , OCP 2.0 , and has a read speed of 14.6 GB/s , write speed is 10.4GB/s , random read 340W IOPS , random write also has 73.5W IOPS , and power consumption is lower than 5.2W .

SK hynix won the super large order of SSD hard disk from Facebook.