Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful As reported by BigGo Finance, Samsung has unveiled the company's next-generation BM9K1 SSD at the China Flash Market Summit 2026 (CFMS 2026). The BM9K1, which will rival the best SSDs, is a PCIe 5.0 drive with QLC NAND and features an SSD controller built around the open-source RISC-V architecture. The BM9K1 reportedly delivers sequential read speeds of up to 11.4 GB/s, which Samsung said is 1.6 times faster than its predecessor, the PCIe 4.0 BM9C1. Samsung is targeting a 2027 launch in 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities and positioning the drive for what the company calls “personal AI computing” workloads on desktops and laptops. Notable with the BM9K1 is Samsung’s departure from an Arm-based controller to a proprietary one built in-house using the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture.…