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6 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
KIOXIA LC9 Series 245.76 TB Enterprise SSD with Innovative 32-die Stack Memory Named ‘Best of Show' at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage 2025
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- KIOXIA America, Inc. today announced that its KIOXIA LC9 Series 245.76 terabyte (TB) 1 enterprise SSD, utilizing a 32-die stack KIOXIA BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 QLC 3D flash memory, has received the FMS 'Best of Show' award in the 'SSD Technology' category. These awards recognize the cutting-edge products, services, and customer implementations that are pushing the boundaries of memory and storage technology. 'Achieving multiple industry firsts with the KIOXIA LC9 Series reflects the depth of innovation across our engineering, manufacturing, and design teams." Share The industry's first 2 245.76 TB 1 NVMe™ SSD in a 2.5-inch and Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E3.L form factor, KIOXIA LC9 Series drives are well-suited to generative AI and enterprise applications. KIOXIA LC9 Series SSDs are now sampling to select customers. 'When customers evaluate SSDs, important consideration is given to storage that scales to high capacities while delivering high performance and low power consumption,' said Jay Kramer, Chair of the Awards Program and President of Network Storage Advisors Inc. 'We are proud to recognize KIOXIA for its BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory and KIOXIA LC9 Series SSD. This solution is enabled by their CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology and the innovation of a 32-die stacked architecture in a package - delivering the capacity, power and density required for transformational SSDs. Creating the highest capacity 2 PCIe ® 5.0 enterprise SSD is a remarkable achievement and a clear reflection of Kioxia's leadership position.' Featuring a 32-die stack of 2 terabit (Tb) 3 BiCS FLASH™ QLC 3D flash memory with innovative CBA technology, KIOXIA LC9 Series SSDs deliver the speed, scale, and density required to support the next wave of AI-centric workloads. This combination of advanced memory architecture and CBA technology enables 8 TB 3 in a small 154 BGA package – also an industry first 2. This milestone was made possible with advancements in Kioxia's high-precision wafer processing, material design, and wire bonding technologies. 'Achieving multiple industry firsts with the KIOXIA LC9 Series reflects the depth of innovation across our engineering, manufacturing, and design teams,' said Scott Nelson, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for KIOXIA America, Inc. 'As AI workloads grow more demanding, we're committed to delivering the flash memory technologies that will power the data infrastructure of tomorrow and accelerate progress across industries.' For more information, please visit and follow the company on X, formerly known as Twitter and LinkedIn ®. About KIOXIA America, Inc. KIOXIA America, Inc. is the U.S.-based subsidiary of KIOXIA Corporation, a leading worldwide supplier of flash memory and solid-state drives (SSDs). From the invention of flash memory to today's breakthrough BiCS FLASH™ 3D technology, KIOXIA continues to pioneer innovative memory, SSD and software solutions that enrich people's lives and expand society's horizons. The company's innovative 3D flash memory technology, BiCS FLASH, is shaping the future of storage in high-density applications, including advanced smartphones, PCs, automotive systems, data centers and generative AI systems. For more information, please visit © 2025 KIOXIA America, Inc. All rights reserved. Information in this press release, including product pricing and specifications, content of services, and contact information is current and believed to be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is subject to change without prior notice. Technical and application information contained here is subject to the most recent applicable KIOXIA product specifications. Notes: 1: Definition of SSD capacity: Kioxia Corporation defines a kilobyte (KB) as 1,000 bytes, a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes, a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, and a kibibyte (KiB) is 1,024 bytes. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes and 1TB = 2^40 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary. 2: As of August 6, 2025, based on Kioxia survey. 3: The flash memory capacity is calculated as 1 terabit (1 Tb) = 1,099,511,627,776 (2^40) bits, and 1 terabyte (1 TB) = 1,099,511,627,776 (2^40) bytes. 2.5-inch indicates the form factor of the SSD and not its physical size. NVMe is a registered or unregistered trademark of NVM Express, Inc. in the United States and other countries. PCIe is a registered trademark of PCI-SIG. LinkedIn is a trademark of LinkedIn Corporation and its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. Other company names, product names and service names may be trademarks of third-party companies.
Barnama
22-07-2025
- Business
- Barnama
KIOXIA Announces Industry's First 245.76 TB NVMe SSD Built for the Demands of Generative AI Environments
TOKYO, July 22 (Bernama) -- Kioxia Corporation has expanded its high-capacity KIOXIA LC9 Series enterprise SSD lineup by introducing the industry's first⁽¹⁾ 245.76 terabyte (TB)⁽²⁾ NVMe™ SSD in 2.5-inch and EDSFF E3.L form factor. This new capacity and form factor option complements the previously announced 122.88 TB (2.5-inch) model and is purpose-built for the performance and efficiency demands of generative AI environments. Generative AI places unique demands on storage, including the need to store vast datasets for training large language models (LLMs), and to create embeddings and vector databases that support inference through retrieval augmented generation (RAG). These workloads require storage solutions with exceptional capacity, speed, and efficiency.
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Kioxia Announces High-Capacity KIOXIA LC9 Series 122.88 TB NVMe SSD for AI Applications
New Enterprise SSD Utilizing 2 Tb QLC Die to be Showcased at Upcoming Conferences TOKYO, March 14, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, today announced the development of its new KIOXIA LC9 Series 122.88 terabyte (TB) NVMe™ SSD in a 2.5-inch form factor – the first SSD built with the company's BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 3D flash memory technology 2 terabit (Tb) QLC die. The KIOXIA LC9 Series, which is under development, will be showcased at various upcoming conferences from this month. As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated and data volumes continue to grow, enterprises require storage solutions that can keep pace with the complex demands of modern workloads. High-capacity drives are critical for certain phases of the AI process, including large language models (LLMs), training and storing vast datasets, vector databases and the rapid retrieval of information for inference and fine-tuning. Designed for generative AI applications, the new enterprise-class KIOXIA drive is built for high capacity and provides a PCIe® 5.0 interface with dual-port capability for fault tolerance or connectivity to multiple compute systems. These high-capacity QLC-based SSDs are suitable for deploying in hybrid cloud and multi-cloud systems. High-capacity SSDs feed training and inference data to AI server systems via these cloud configurations. This new KIOXIA SSD complements the recently announced KIOXIA AiSAQ™ technology, which enhances scalable RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) performance by storing vector database elements on SSDs instead of costly, limited DRAM. Additionally, it improves system and rack-level efficiency with higher storage density and lower power consumption per TB compared to lower-capacity SSDs. KIOXIA LC9 Series SSD highlights include: Dual-port 2.5-inch SSD form factor, 122.88 TB capacity, 0.3 DWPD endurance. NVMe™ 2.0, NVMe-MI™ and PCIe® 5.0 specification-compliant (up to 128 gigatransfers per second Gen5 single x4, dual x2 performance capable). Features KIOXIA 2 Tb QLC BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 3D flash memory with CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology, which contributes to making high capacity, high performance and power efficient products. Notes*2.5-inch indicates the form factor of the SSD and not its physical size. *Definition of capacity: Kioxia Corporation defines a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes and 1TB = 2^40 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary. *DWPD: Drive Write Per Day. One full drive write per day means the drive can be written and re-written to full capacity once a day every day for five years, the stated product warranty period. Actual results may vary due to system configuration, usage and other factors. *NVMe and NVMe-MI are registered or unregistered trademarks of NVM Express, Inc. in the United States and other countries.*PCIe is a registered trademark of PCI-SIG.*Other company names, product names and service names may be trademarks of third-party companies. About KioxiaKioxia is a world leader in memory solutions, dedicated to the development, production and sale of flash memory and solid-state drives (SSDs). In April 2017, its predecessor Toshiba Memory was spun off from Toshiba Corporation, the company that invented NAND flash memory in 1987. Kioxia is committed to uplifting the world with "memory" by offering products, services and systems that create choice for customers and memory-based value for society. Kioxia's innovative 3D flash memory technology, BiCS FLASH™, is shaping the future of storage in high-density applications, including advanced smartphones, PCs, automotive systems, data centers and generative AI systems. Customer Inquiries:Kioxia GroupGlobal Sales Officeshttps:// *Information in this document, including product prices and specifications, content of services and contact information, is correct on the date of the announcement but is subject to change without prior notice. View source version on Contacts Media Inquiries:Kioxia CorporationSales Strategic Planning DivisionKoji TakahataTel: +81-3-6478-2404
