At CES 2026, BIWIN’s innovative Mini SSD received industry recognition by winning the TWICE PICKS AWARD and the AVRONA MOST INNOVATIVE AWARD. Built on a breakthrough design approach and solid engineering capabilities, this mini yet powerful storage solution continues BIWIN’s focus on innovation while supporting the fast-evolving requirements of edge AI applications.
Tens of thousands of gadgets and prototypes were shown at CES 2026 across over 4,100 exhibitor booths. BIWIN Mini SSD won the attention from two media who annually pick the best innovations from the thousands of exhibitors. TWICE (This Week in Consumer Electronics) is the leading B2B media brand and magazine serving the USA consumer electronics industries. It provides retailers, manufacturers, and distributors with critical market insights, industry trends, and business intelligence. The Avrona channel is a tech and PC hardware-oriented YouTube channel focused on providing in-depth and informative content to viewers across the world of technology.
Advanced Storage Through Engineering Innovation
Traditional consumer storage solutions contend with trade-offs in performance, portability, and scalability. And often can’t keep pace in the AI era with the fast-growing demands of next-generation devices. BIWIN’s Mini SSD addresses these challenges through three key innovations:
- Advanced LGA packaging enables a compact footprint of 15 x 17 x 1.4 mm – approximately half the size of a coin, while supporting capacities from 512 GB to 2 TB.
- The PCIe 4.0 x2 interface with NVMe 1.4 protocol enables read speeds of up to 3,700 MB/s and write speeds of up to 3,400 MB/s. This positions the BIWIN Mini SSD beyond typical memory card solutions and closer to the performance of mainstream consumer M.2 SSDs.
- The standardized card-based SSD design enables seamless, tool-free expansion. With a simple open – insert – lock process, users can complete terabyte-level storage upgrades efficiently, simplifying the overall upgrade workflow.
Built for Consumers, Better for Business
The BIWIN Mini SSD delivers a more accessible storage expansion experience for consumers, enabling convenient, tool-free upgrades of terabyte-level storage. With flagship-class performance, it meets a wide range of data storage needs while supporting smooth operation across intelligent devices.
For device manufacturers, its standardized interface, modular architecture, and scalable design help simplify BOM management, reducing complexity and cost across manufacturing, inventory, and after-sales processes. This contributes to more efficient lifecycle management of end products.
The BIWIN Mini SSD is currently deployed in consumer handheld devices from OneXPlayer and GPD, with other supporting partners already developing a wide range of compatible product offerings.
Award-Winning Innovation, Globally Recognized
The BIWIN Mini SSD has been repeatedly recognized for its innovation by global brands, and awarded for its achievements. It was named in TIME’s Best Inventions of the Year 2025, becoming the only storage product included in the list.
It was subsequently honored with the Best-in-Show Award at Embedded World North America 2025, reflecting industry recognition of its technical maturity and commercialization potential. It received continued recognition at CES 2026, with two additional awards from AVRONA and TWICE, the TechRadar Best in Show award at MWC 2026, and the Memory of the Year award at the 2026 China IC Design Awards, further highlighting its practical value and market relevance.
More recently, it was hailed for its innovation by the 2026 Edison Awards, often regarded as one of the most prestigious honors in global innovation. Praised for its performance and compact form-factor, the Mini SSD received Bronze recognition in the Engineering and Robotics category.
Building Strategic Consensus
BIWIN convened the first Mini SSD Strategic Seminar in Shenzhen, on January 26. The event brought together leading companies across the industry, including Intel, Longcheer, BYD Electronics, Luxshare, Emdoor, Weibu, JWIPC, CYX Industrial, MINISFORUM, Decenta, and SIXUNITED, Together with BIWIN, they reached a consensus to jointly build a new industry ecosystem for the Mini SSD, marking a turning point in the adoption of this new and exciting storage solution.
As early adopters of the Mini SSD ecosystem, strategic partners will gain priority access to patent licensing and further ecosystem collaboration for streamlined development and procurement. This event is a key example of the confidence shown in the BIWIN Mini SSD to enhance storage performance and capacity for consumer devices in a variety of industries and form factors.
Looking to the future, Mini SSD ecosystem partners will collaborate to accelerate the adoption of the Mini SSD across handheld gaming devices, robotics, AI PCs, and emerging edge-AI devices.
