- Sandisk Plans Plans 256 TB and 512 TB SSD using a new Stargate controller
- Stargate will make its debut in the launch of corporate records at the end of 2025
- Decreasing company revenues after WD division, but the roadmap remains very ambitious
Sandisk, now operating independently as a manufacturer of SSD and Nand Flash after his separation from Western Digital last year, teased a new SSD controller called “Stargate”, designed to take charge of extremely high business training.
Stargate, who confuses his name with the Stargate project of Openai but obviously has nothing to do with this, is part of the “Ultra QLC” platform of Sankisk, which aims to put the SSD capacities on the scale in the years to come.
During his call for results, the Sandisk CEO David Goeckeler said: “We have a new architecture that comes out in the next two quarters that we call Stargate, a new design of ASIC and clean sheets, then with BICS 8 QLC … We simply think it will be a dynamite project.”
1PB SSD incoming
Goeckeler has not shared other technical details, but Stargate should make its debut in corporate records such as the DC SN670 series.
This line should be published in the third quarter of 2025 with capacities of 64 TB and 128 TB, BICS8 QLC (2tbit / 256 GB per MAT) and the PCIE 5.0 support.
Future versions may include PCIe 6.0 as capacity targets increase. The SanDisk roadmap shows 256 TB for 2026, followed by 512 TB in 2027, with a target of 1PB further. Stargate is likely to play a central role to allow these jumps.
The third quarter of Sankisk’s 2025 fiscal year was also his first as an autonomous company. He said $ 1.695 billion in income, a drop of 10% compared to the previous quarter and a net loss of $ 1.881 billion, largely due to a goodwill deficiency of $ 1.83 billion.
The strongest segment of Sandisk was the SSDS of customers, reported $ 927 million, followed by $ 571 million in consumer products and $ 197 million in the cloud division.
Source: Computerbase.de
