KIOXIA America, Inc. today announced the KIOXIA GP1 Series PCIe 6.0 NVMe SSD, the first product in its KIOXIA GP Series of Super High IOPS SSDs optimized for GPU direct access. Building on the KIOXIA GP Series technology introduced earlier this year, the KIOXIA GP1 Series delivers up to 10 million random read IOPS using KIOXIA XL-FLASH generation 2 flash memory, enabling flash-based memory extension to help address the growing performance and memory demands of AI infrastructure. Evaluation samples will be available to select customers by the end of 2026. The KIOXIA GP1 Series will be showcased at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage, taking place August 4 - 6 in Santa Clara, California.

The KIOXIA GP1 Series is designed to support emerging AI storage architectures, which extend High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) as a fast flash memory media-based tier. This approach lets AI systems access larger datasets at a significantly lower cost than adding more HBM4, while improving GPU utilization.KIOXIA GP1 Series SSDs leverage KIOXIA XL-FLASH generation 2 low-latency, high-performance flash memory to deliver significantly higher IOPS finer-grained 512-byte data access, and lower power consumption per I/O compared to conventional TLC-based SSDs. The architecture is designed to scale from today's 10 million random read IOPS to future generations targeting up to 100 million IOPS.

Key features of the KIOXIA GP1 Series include:

• Designed to PCIe 6.0 and NVMe 2.2 specifications
• Utilizes KIOXIA XL-FLASH generation 2 low-latency flash memory
• Up to 10 million random read IOPS at a 512-byte block size
• Available in E3.S, E1.S 9.5 mm/15 mm 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)
• Up to 50 DWPD endurance

Neville Ichhaporia, senior vice president and general manager of the SSD business unit at KIOXIA America, Inc.The AI memory wall is a critical challenge for our industry to solve on the way to growing the scale and capability of AI deployment, KIOXIA's XL-FLASH is uniquely positioned to deliver the extremely high performance and low-latency data access needed to support GPUs as a memory extension tier. It also offers a significantly lower cost per gigabyte than expanding in-node HBM or DRAM capacity. The KIOXIA GP1 SSD is a breakthrough product that will enable a new, leading-edge AI memory topology and demonstrates KIOXIA's continuous commitment to advancing AI.