The premium NVMe SSD market is poised to heat up again. Micron, Samsung, Toshiba and partners have 96-layer 3D TLC memory in production with products soon to follow using the new NVMe 1.3 standard. Phison and Silicon Motion have new controllers coming out of development for the new memory. The Phison PS5012-E12 (E12) and Silicon Motion, Inc. (SMI) SM2262EN offer manufacturers broad options to build next-generation SSDs that leave existing models in the dust.