Samsung Starts PM1763 Production for Faster AI Servers

Samsung Electronics announced on July 8, 2026 that it had begun mass production of the PM1763 enterprise storage drive, a PCIe 6.0 SSD designed for AI and high-performance computing [HPC] servers. The company says the product uses ninth-generation V-NAND memory and a new 4-nanometre controller, with improvements for liquid-cooled environments.

The PM1763 is available in 4, 8 and 16 terabyte capacities. Samsung says the 16 terabyte version reaches sequential read and write speeds of up to 28,400 and 21,900 megabytes per second, more than twice the performance of the previous PM1753 generation. The company also said transferring a 40 gigabyte large language model [LLM] takes about 1.4 seconds and that energy efficiency has improved by more than 1.8 times. It supports post-quantum cryptography [PQC] algorithms and the TDISP protocol to secure data paths in virtualised environments.

The lens: Sovereignty For the Middle East and North Africa, AI sovereignty is not only about models and data centres. It also requires supply chains for memory and storage that can withstand training and inference workloads. As government and commercial data centres expand across the Gulf, energy efficiency, cooling and security become central points in supplier negotiations. Components of this kind remind decision makers that operational independence is built from small layers, including the storage drive, data path and cooling, before the model interface.

Source: https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-begins-mass-production-of-pm1763-ssd-optimized-for-next-generation-ai-infrastructure