Samsung Electronics said it has started mass production of the PM1763 enterprise SSD for AI data centers, built on the PCIe 6.0 interface and slated for use in Nvidia Corp’s upcoming Vera Rubin AI platform. The 16TB model delivers sequential read speeds of up to 28,400 MB/s and write speeds of up to 21,900 MB/s, and the drive will be offered in 4TB, 8TB and 16TB capacities. Samsung also said the PM1763 improves power efficiency by more than 1.8 times versus the prior generation and supports liquid-cooled server environments, while adding encryption aimed at future quantum-computing threats.