Solidigm withdraws from the consumer SSD business.

The transfer of employees and assets to SK Hynix is ​​expected to be completed by March 2025, as Solidigm's consumer SSDs have been discontinued for several months. In addition to two Solidigm SSDs, the manufacturer's website no longer lists consumer products, instead focusing on enterprise and data center SSDs.

Soldigm is a subsidiary that was renamed in December 2021 following SK Hynix's acquisition of Intel's SSD division and manufacturing facility in Dalian, China, for $9 billion. The deal included Intel's employees, storage technology, intellectual property, and wafer manufacturing.

Solidigm's decision to stop producing consumer SSDs reflects market oversupply.

Solidigm announced last year that it would inform customers that the P41 Plus and P44 Pro models would be its last products, and that customers would be redirected to the SK Hynix product line. The Intel 660p and 670p SSDs, which the company has been producing since its acquisition in 2021, will also cease production this coming October. Solidigm will focus on the data center SSD sector, aiming to provide high-capacity eSSDs for AI (artificial intelligence) deployments.

According to Tom's Hardware , the closure was unexpected because Solidigm was preparing to launch new SSDs, with prototypes already being sent to several hardware review sites. The P44 Pro and P41 Plus SSDs also received positive reviews because Solidigm equipped them with the Synergy 2.0 SSD controller and a toolkit designed to accelerate random and sequential read speeds, resulting in faster game loading and system boot times thanks to intelligent algorithms that prioritize frequently used data. Meanwhile, other SSD manufacturers typically rely on Microsoft's standard SSD controller.

2023 saw a decline in consumer SSD sales due to oversupply causing prices to plummet. Despite this, Solidigm continued its research into SSDs for data centers, launching a 122TB drive with write endurance of over 134 petabytes in November 2024.

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