Kioxia Corporation today announced the KIOXIA CM10 Series of solid-state drives (SSDs), featuring the company's latest BiCS FLASH generation 10 TLC flash memory. Designed for demanding enterprise and AI workloads, including AI inference and context caching, the new drives support the NVIDIA CMX architecture while delivering significant gains in performance, power efficiency, and cooling flexibility over the previous generation.

The KIOXIA CM10 Series is Kioxia's first PCIe 6.0 enterprise SSD and offers direct-cold-plate liquid cooling capability, enabling more efficient cooling deployments for next-generation AI infrastructure. Compared to the previous generation, the KIOXIA CM10 Series delivers up to approx. 92 % higher sequential read performance and up to approx. 85 % higher random read performance, helping to accelerate data-intensive AI inference and enterprise applications while improving overall system efficiency.As AI models continue to scale toward trillions of parameters and context windows expand to millions of tokens, the demand for high-performance context cache storage is growing rapidly. Architectures such as NVIDIA CMX extend the memory hierarchy beyond GPU memory by leveraging ultra-fast flash memory storage, making enterprise SSDs an increasingly important component of AI infrastructure. The KIOXIA CM10 Series is designed to meet these evolving requirements with the performance, capacity, and endurance needed for large-scale AI deployments.

Key features of the KIOXIA CM10 Series include:

• PCIe 6.0, NVMe 2.1, and Open Compute Project (OCP) Datacenter NVMe SSD Specification v2.7 compliant, including support for NVMe Flexible Data Placement (FDP)
• Available in E3.S, E1.S, and 2.5-inch form factors, with cold-plate liquid cooling capability in E3.S and E1.S 9.5 mm form factors (all form factors support traditional air-cooled environments)
• Capacities ranging from 1.60 TB to 61.44 TB (varies by form factor), with read-intensive (1 DWPD) and mixed-use (3 DWPD) endurance options
• Utilizes leading-edge KIOXIA BiCS FLASH generation 10 (332-layers) flash memory that improves SSD performance and power efficiency
• Security options include SIE, SED, SED FIPS 140-3 (planned), post-quantum cryptography recommended by CNSA 2.0, and SPDM 1.4 attestation support

The KIOXIA CM10 Series drives are currently sampling to select customers, and will be showcased at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage.