In recent years, there has been continuous good news about PCIe 5.0 technology in the enterprise market. Both mainstream CPU manufacturers and large storage manufacturers are optimistic that PCIe 5.0 will replace PCIe 4.0 and provide higher performance for servers and data centers. However, in the consumer market, due to factors such as cost, mainstream manufacturers have different opinions on PCIe 5.0, and the progress of PCIe 5.0 SSD is relatively slow. 1 Intel/Samsung new products do not support PCIe 5.0 SSD? The 12th-generation Core desktop processor released by Intel in 2021 will support PCIe 5.0 technology for the first time, but the PCIe 5.0 of this processor only supports graphics cards and does not support SSDs. At the end of September this year, Intel will release the 13th-generation Core, and the industry expects that the 13th-generation Core will support PCIe 5.0 SSDs. However, recent media reports that Intel’s 13th-generation Core may not support PCIe 5.0 SSDs like the 12th-generation. Recently, netizens have exposed the specifications of the 13th-generation Core Raptor Lake and Z790 motherboards. The motherboard provides 5 M.2 slots. However, neither the CPU directly connected nor the Z790 chipset supports PCIe 5.0, and the M.2 hard drive supports the highest PCIe 4.0 x4. The industry believes that there are few PCIe 5.0 SSD products in the current market, so Intel's 13th-generation Core is not keen to support PCIe 5.0 SSD. Coincidentally, Samsung's flagship SSD product 990 Pro recently did not support PCIe 5.0 technology, but continued to use PCIe 4.0 technology. Previously, it was widely rumored in the industry that Samsung's new 990 PRO is a PCIe 5.0 product. However, Samsung officially released the PCIe 4.0-based NVMe SSD product 990 PRO on August 24. Why abandon PCIe 5.0 technology? In this regard, Samsung said that the adoption of PCIe 4.0 is not due to product development or technical problems, but purely based on market demand. 2 AMD and 12 manufacturers jointly launch PCIe 5.0 SSD Compared with Intel and Samsung, AMD's attitude towards consumer-grade PCIe 5.0 SSDs is relatively positive. On August 30, AMD released the Zen4-based Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors, which are built with TSMC’s 5nm process. The new architecture has a 13% increase in IPC compared to existing products, and supports DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0. In addition, AMD has also teamed up with 12 manufacturers to promote the PCIe 5.0 ecosystem, including Phison, ASUS, Micron, Corsair, Intel, GALAXY, GIGABYTE, MSI, Seagate, PNY, etc. The related PCIe 5.0 SSDs are expected to be released in November this year. Start listing. PCIe 5.0 SSD can provide faster speed and higher performance than PCIe 4.0 SSD. Previously, AMD and Phison demonstrated the E26 master PCIe 5.0 SSD running on the Ryzen 7000 platform, with a speed of 10GB/s. The new MP700 PCIe 5.0 SSD announced on the official website of Corsair also has a speed of up to 10GB/s. In contrast, the current PCIe 4.0 flagship SSD speed can reach more than 7GB/s. 3 Epilogue Despite the powerful performance of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, the price of SSDs supporting PCIe 5.0 is still very expensive at present, which determines that PCIe 5.0 SSDs can only be applied in servers, data centers and other fields first, while the consumer market is price-oriented, consumer-grade It will take some time for PCIe 5.0 SSD to be recognized by the market. Before the cost problem can be solved, consumer-grade PCIe 5.0 SSD is expected to develop in a "slow and hot" situation. In the future, as AMD and other manufacturers continue to make efforts, more and more manufacturers will promote the application of PCIe 5.0 in the consumer market, and the market space of consumer PCIe 5.0 SSDs will continue to expand.