Stefan Mileschin

Now that AMD has kicked off the transition to PCI Express 4.0 in the consumer PC market, peripheral vendors are racing to follow suit. Phison is on track to deliver the first PCIe 4.0-capable NVMe controller for consumer SSDs, so many of their customers are announcing products based on the new PS5016-E16 controller. Corsair is one of the first in turn to announce their drive, with the new MP600 M.2 NVMe SSD.

The specifications disclosed so far for the MP600 are still incomplete, but the most important point is that the MP600 will be launching in July alongside AMD's new Ryzen 3000 series processors and their X570 chipset, both providing PCIe 4.0 lanes. Corsair hasn't specifically committed to launching on the same 7/7 date as AMD, but even shipping in the same month is a win for Phison and their partners. No other SSD controller vendor has announced a PCIe 4.0 capable client SSD controller, and even if that changes this week during Computex, Phison will almost certainly be first to market.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14416...d-with-pcie-40