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Solidigm has officially discontinued the P44 Pro and P41 Plus SSDs, the only consumer SSDs the company has ever released and likely ever will (via ITHome).
In addition to Solidigm’s two consumer SSDs, the storage manufacturer’s website also no longer lists consumer drives anywhere on the front page; Even the drop-down list of products doesn’t mention consumer storage space. Instead, almost the entire website is dedicated to Solidigm’s data center SSD business, etc Google Search, the website is listed as “Solidigm Enterprise SSDs”.
However, some vestiges of Solidigm’s consumer motivations remain. At the bottom of the first page, “QLC SSD” is a suggested search term and displays an article about QLC NVMe SSDs, which Solidigm no longer produces.
The storage company was created out of Intel’s SSD business in 2021, when the South Korean memory company… Sk Hynix bought the group for $9 billion. The deal included employees, storage technology, intellectual property from Intel and chip production. The transfer of employees and assets to Sk Hynix will not be fully completed until March, by which time Solidigm’s consumer SSDs will be retired for several months.
The Intel 660p and 670p, which Solidigm has continued to manufacture since its acquisition in 2021, have also been caught in the crossfire and look set to be retired in October, according to Solidigm’s website.
The discontinuation of the P44 Pro and P41 Plus comes more than a year after Solidigm disbanded its consumer SSD division, which… Tom’s devices I learned from someone familiar with this issue. When solidium It laid off a “modest” number of its employees in October 2023It has primarily affected those who work in the field of consumer motivation, at least according to our source. We have contacted Solidigm for comment but have not yet received a response.
The shutdown was sudden and seemingly unexpected, as it happened before Solidigm’s consumer storage group was about to launch a brand new SSD that had already shipped to some reviewers. This was though B44 Pro and B41 Plus It received positive reviews, thanks in part to Solidigm putting in extra effort into things like it Synergy 2.0 driver and toolkitwhen almost every other SSD manufacturer relies on it MicrosoftStandard SSD drivers.
However, 2023 was not the right time to sell consumer SSDs due to oversupply causing prices to collapse. The P41 Plus sold for less than $34 in late 2023around the time of the dissolution of the consumer division. While this is great for buyers, it’s terrible for companies like Solidigm. In the first quarter of 2022 Samsung profits decline by 95% Compared to the previous year.
Although its consumer drives are no longer in existence, Solidigm has continued its work on data center-class SSDs, specifically in the field of artificial intelligence. Only in November, it was launched 122TB drive with over 134 petabytes (PB) endurance.
