The 990 EVO Plus and 9100 PRO, two new consumer SSDs that will presumably leverage either the PCIe Gen 4 or Gen 5 interfaces, is currently in development at Samsung, according to new trademark filings that have surfaced from the Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service, a group that covers domestic and foreign industrial property information, including patents, utility models, trademarks, and more. Samsung launched the 990 EVO in January, while the 990 PRO, an SSD that comes in a heatsink option and boasts what the company says is best-in-class read speeds, launched in September last year.
Links to the trademarks:
From a report:
- “Samsung might now plan on closing the gap between the 990 EVO and the 990 PRO by releasing a 990 EVO Plus model.”
- “Samsung also trademarked the 9100 PRO name at KIPRIS [but it ]doesn’t follow Samsung’s usual naming schemes for storage solutions, be it SSDs, USB sticks, or memory cards.”
- “Unlike the 990 EVO Plus, the 9100 PRO application also includes designated goods such as semiconductor devices, semiconductors, semiconductor memories, and semiconductor memory units.”
- “…one possible explanation as to why it exists might be that the 990 EVO Plus is an SSD and the 9100 PRO is an SSD component, like a memory chip.”
The trademarks:
Some promos for Samsung’s newer SSDs:
Samsung on the SSD 990 PRO:
Offering blazing-fast speeds and ultimate power efficiency, the 990 PRO series is optimized for massive data volumes, such as 3D/4K graphics work, data analytics and high-quality games, making it the ideal SSD for today’s PCs, laptops, game consoles and computing systems. With improved total bytes written (TBW) ratings of up to 2,400TB, the 990 PRO series ensures increased SSD reliability and longevity, ideal for those with highly demanding workloads and large storage capacity needs.