Kioxia Launches Super High IOPS SSD, Enabling GPU-to-Flash Direct Connection

Kioxia has announced a new category of SSD products, Super High IOPS SSD, which enables the GPU to directly access high-speed flash memory as an expansion to High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) in AI systems. 

The new Super High IOPS SSD, the KIOXIA GP Series, is purpose-built to meet the growing performance demands of AI and high-performance computing, providing larger GPU-accessible memory capacity for faster data access to AI workloads. 

The NVIDIA Storage-Next initiative calls on SSD vendors to design drives optimized for GPU-initiated AI workloads. The initiative effectively expands HBM capacity by enabling GPUs to access flash-based memory. Kioxia is supporting NVIDIA's initiative with the KIOXIA GP Series SSDs, which utilize low-latency, high-performance KIOXIA XL-FLASH™ Storage Class Memory, and is uniquely positioned for this architecture, delivering higher IOPS, finer-grained data access (512 bytes), and lower power consumption per IO, compared with Kioxia conventional TLC SSDs.

Evaluation samples of KIOXIA GP Series will be available to select customers by the end of 2026.