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Exascend Unveils First NVMe 2.1 SSDs at Computex 2026, Targeting Enterprise and AI Workloads

by btarunr

19d ago· 2 min readenNews

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At Computex 2026, Exascend (Memoright's enterprise brand) showcased its first SSDs implementing the new NVMe 2.1 protocol. The new protocol introduces features like computational storage support, NVMe-oF network booting, TLS 1.3 authentication, and out-of-bounds management—primarily targeting enterprise markets with some relevance to AI inferencing client segments. The company demonstrated their PE5 SSD in the E1.S form-factor with a PCIe Gen 5 x4 host interface.

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Exascend, the enterprise and workstation brand of Memoright, showcased its first SSDs to implement the new NVMe 2.1 protocol.

The new NVMe 2.1 protocol, which lays the groundwork for computational storage, NVMe-oF network booting, new TLS 1.3 authentication, and out-of-bounds management.

Features mostly relevant to the enterprise market, though we'll see some of these features in the AI inferencing client segment.

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At Computex 2026, Exascend, the enterprise and workstation brand of Memoright, showcased its first SSDs to implement the new NVMe 2.1 protocol. Current PCIe Gen 5 based SSDs are based on NVMe 2.0, and the new NVMe 2.1 protocol, which lays the groundwork f

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