# SK hynix plans specialized cores for NAND storage controllers

_Published Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 10:05 AM EDT · Infrastructure, Products · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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SK hynix plans to spread its Hynix Transaction Processing Unit across NAND products, including next-generation enterprise SSD controllers, Tom's Hardware reported. The small programmable cores would handle repetitive read and write processing, metadata and buffer control, leaving error recovery and storage policies to a traditional Arm CPU.

The company claims each core uses about 2.5% of a general-purpose CPU core's power and around 4% of its area. Clusters can idle cores that an operation does not need. The comparison CPU is unidentified, and H-TPU has yet to be proven in an enterprise SSD controller product; no date has been given.

## Sources

- [Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/sk-hynix-to-place-custom-tiny-cpu-cores-in-its-ssd-controllers-to-ease-arm-load-as-drive-speeds-rocket-each-h-tpu-reportedly-draws-2-5-percent-of-a-cpu-cores-power)

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