Microchip and Micron show PCIe Gen 6 storage path for AI data centers

Microchip Technology announced a demonstration that pairs its Switchtec PCIe Gen 6 switches with Micron 9650 NVMe solid-state drives. The setup is aimed at high-throughput, low-latency storage connectivity for AI, high-performance computing, and cloud data-center workloads. The available report says the architecture can fan out PCIe Gen 6 bandwidth to multiple Micron SSDs and support composable or disaggregated system designs. For RamTrend, the signal is on the storage side of AI infrastructure: faster PCIe fabrics give enterprise SSD vendors another route to position high-performance NVMe drives as AI platforms scale beyond accelerator memory alone.