Zhitai
Zhitai (Chinese: 致态; pinyin: Zhìtài; stylized as ZHITAI) is a consumer storage brand of Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC), a Chinese manufacturer of NAND flash memory. Introduced in 2020, the brand is used for solid-state drives, portable SSDs and memory cards.[1][2]
History
YMTC introduced the ZHITAI product line in September 2020 with two consumer SSDs, the PCIe-based PC005 Active and the SATA-based SC001 Active. The original Chinese-language announcement referred to the product line as 致钛; subsequent YMTC product pages use 致态 as the brand's Chinese name.[3]
By December 2022, YMTC had begun shipping the ZHITAI TiPlus7100, which used the company's 232-layer 3D NAND based on its Xtacking 3.0 architecture.[4]
In 2023, ZHITAI released the 1 TB Ti600 SSD. An analysis by TechInsights identified a 232-layer quad-level cell NAND die in the drive, with a bit density of 19.8 Gb/mm². TechInsights described it as the highest bit density it had measured in a commercially available NAND product at the time.[5]
In December 2024, Tom's Hardware reported on the ZHITAI TiPro9000, a PCI Express 5.0 SSD using YMTC's fifth-generation 3D TLC NAND with the Xtacking 4.0 architecture and a Silicon Motion SM2508 controller.[6]
ZHITAI made its first appearance at Computex in 2025, where it exhibited internal SSDs, portable SSDs and memory cards.[7] At Computex 2026, the company announced the TiPro9000, TiPlus9100 and TiPlus7100s as part of an expansion of the brand's activities in the Asia-Pacific consumer market.[8]
Awards and recognition
In 2025, the ZHITAI TiPro9000 received a Red Dot award in the Product Design category.[9]
In 2026, the ZHITAI Spirit Neo portable SSD received a MUSE Design Award in a product-design category.[10]
References
- ↑ "ZHITAI, YMTC's Retail Storage Brand, Set for COMPUTEX Taipei 2025 Debut". Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.. 22 May 2025. https://www.prnewswire.com/apac/news-releases/zhitai-ymtcs-retail-storage-brand-set-for-computex-taipei-2025-debut-302462844.html.
- ↑ "Products". https://www.ymtc.com/en/productlist.html?cat=33.
- ↑ "Error: no
|title=specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in zh). 20 September 2020. https://www.ymtc.com/cn/news/38.html. - ↑ Shilov, Anton (10 December 2022). "Ultra-Fast SSDs Coming: 2400 MT/s NAND in Mass Production". Tom's Hardware. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ymtc-releases-zhitai-tiplus7100-ssd-with-232-layer-3d-nand.
- ↑ "China Does It Again: A NAND Memory Market First". 24 October 2023. https://www.techinsights.com/products/fcd-2310-802.
- ↑ Shilov, Anton (25 December 2024). "Chinese PCIe 5.0 SSD tested with speeds up to 14.5 GB/s — Zhitai TiPro9000 sports 5th Gen YMTC 3D NAND and SMI SM2508 controller". Tom's Hardware. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/chinese-pcie-5-0-ssd-tested-with-speeds-up-to-14-5-gb-s-zhitai-tipro9000-sports-5th-gen-ymtc-3d-nand-and-smi-sm2508-controller.
- ↑ "ZHITAI, YMTC's Retail Storage Brand, Set for COMPUTEX Taipei 2025 Debut". Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.. 22 May 2025. https://www.prnewswire.com/apac/news-releases/zhitai-ymtcs-retail-storage-brand-set-for-computex-taipei-2025-debut-302462844.html.
- ↑ "YMTC Consumer Brand ZHITAI Unveils Three SSDs at COMPUTEX, Powered by Xtacking 3D NAND". TrendForce. 2 June 2026. https://www.trendforce.com/news/2026/06/02/news-ymtc-consumer-brand-zhitai-unveils-three-ssds-at-computex-powered-by-xtacking-3d-nand/.
- ↑ "ZHITAI TiPro9000 SSD". 2025. https://www.red-dot.org/project/zhitai-tipro9000-ssd-82499.
- ↑ "ZHITAI SPIRIT NEO Portable SSD". 2026. https://design.museaward.com/winners-info.php?id=35581.
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