Silicon Motion is one of the leading producers of NVMe PCIe SSD controllers. At the recent Flash Memory Summit one of the firm’s senior managers reportedly indicated that the first laptops packing PCIe 5.0 SSDs will hit retail by the end of 2024. According to Chinese tech media, Silicon Motion’s Product Planning Manager, Liu Yaoren, brought up the subject of PCIe 5.0 SSDs and laptop PCs in a keynote speech at FMS2023. China’s ITHome ties Liu’s statement in with the yet to be released SM2508 SSD controller. The new controller is headlined as both a high performance and low power...