Despite the buzz around ultra-fast PCIe 5.0 SSDs, Samsung, as one of the leading SSD vendors in the world, is notably absent in this development race of creating the fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs on the market. However, based on entries found on South Korea’s trademark office (spotted by SamMobile), we might be seeing new SSDs coming from the Korean semiconductor giant eventually.
New Samsung SSDs Spotted In KIPRIS
Two new names were found on Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS) database, namely the 990 EVO Plus, and an all-new 9100 PRO. The nomenclature indicates the former model will likely fill the market gap between 990 EVO and 990 PRO, while the latter is potentially a next-generation model given that Samsung has run out of numbers with the current naming. As Samsung officially still lacks a full-blown PCIe 5.0 SSD (not counting the 990 PRO which only uses PCIe 5.0 x2), the 9100 PRO sounds like the most probable candidate for it.
As for what these drives are capable of performance-wise, that’s very much still anyone’s guesses right now. The trademark office did not reveal anything more than the name (plus the category, but it surprises no one that it’s classified under storage products), so we’ll have to wait for a while before Samsung formally announces its next-gen SSD lineup.
Pokdepinion: Perhaps they are taking their sweet time to finally cook up a PCIe 5.0 SSD (that hopefully doesn’t require humongous heatsinks).
