Solidigm Exits Consumer SSD Business

The transfer of employees and assets to SK Hynix is ​​expected to be completed by March 3.2025, when Solidigm’s consumer SSDs have been discontinued for several months. Aside from the two Solidigm SSDs, the manufacturer’s website no longer lists consumer products, shifting to enterprise and data center SSDs.

Soldigm is a subsidiary that was renamed in December 12.2021 after SK Hynix acquired Intel's SSD business and manufacturing facility in Dalian, China for $9 billion. The deal includes Intel's employees, storage technology, intellectual property, and wafer manufacturing.

Solidigm stops producing consumer SSDs, reflecting market oversupply

Solidigm said it had told customers last year that the P41 Plus and P44 Pro models would be its last, with customers being redirected to SK Hynix's product line. The Intel 660p and 670p SSDs it has been producing since its acquisition in 2021 will also be discontinued in October. Solidigm will focus on data center SSDs with the goal of providing high-capacity eSSDs for AI (artificial intelligence) deployments.

Theo Tom's Hardware, the closure comes as a surprise as Solidigm was preparing to launch a new SSD, samples of which were sent to several hardware review sites. The P44 Pro and P41 Plus SSDs also received positive reviews as Solidigm included the Synergy 2.0 SSD driver and a suite of tools designed to boost random reads and sequential operations, resulting in faster game loading and system boot times thanks to smart algorithms that prioritize frequently used data. Other SSD manufacturers typically rely on Microsoft's standard SSD driver.

2023 will see a decline in consumer SSD sales as oversupply drives prices down. However, Solidigm continues to work on data center SSDs, launching a 122TB drive with over 134 petabytes of write endurance in November 11.2024.