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