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Kioxia to ship ultra-high IOPS SSD samples for NVIDIA Storage-Next by end of 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026 at 02:40 AM
Kioxia is developing a ultra-high IOPS SSD specifically designed to meet the requirements of NVIDIA's Storage-Next architecture for AI infrastructure. The company plans to ship evaluation samples of these high-performance storage drives by the end of 2026 to support evolving data center demands.
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At the NVIDIA GTC 2026 conference, Kioxia announced the development of its GP Series Super High IOPS SSD, a specialized storage solution designed for NVIDIA’s Storage-Next architecture. This initiative aims to transition AI workloads from compute-intensive to data-intensive by allowing GPUs to directly access flash memory. This effectively extends the capacity of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), which currently limits the scale of large language models and trillion-parameter AI systems.
By utilizing XL-FLASH Storage Class Memory, the GP Series provides significantly lower latency and finer-grained data access compared to traditional TLC SSDs. Kioxia expects to begin shipping evaluation samples to select customers by the end of 2026. Additionally, the company showcased a high-capacity 25.6 TB CM9 Series SSD, optimized for NVIDIA’s Context Memory Storage (CMX) to handle the massive KV cache requirements of modern AI inference infrastructure.
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