Intel SSD D7-P5500 and SSD D7-P5600 Series launched

[HEXUS]

These are data centre U.2 15mm SSDs with Intel TLC 3D NAND tech and PCIe Gen4.

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[edmundhonda]

Launching these with PCIe 4.0 support on the same day as their Xeon refresh (which doesn't have 4.0 support) is very very funny to me.

[JayN]

Ice Lake Xeon Server chips with PCIE4 have been sampling since May 2019, based on an article from anandtech.

quote below is from hothardware article by Paul Lilly — Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 10:39 AM EDT

"The presentation also revealed Intel is planning to launch Ice Lake-SP Xeon processors with up to 38 cores and 76 threads (per socket), with a TDP of 270 watts. These chips will feature support for 64 PCI Express 4.0 lanes, 8-channel DDR4-3200 memory (16 DIMMs per socket), and Intel's second generation Optane DC Persistent Memory."