KIOXIA ANNOUNCES FIRST ENTERPRISE NVME™ SSD BUILT WITH 8TH GENERATION BICS FLASH™ TLC-BASED FLASH MEMORY TECHNOLOGY

TOKYO, May 16 (Bernama) -- Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, today announced the development and prototype demonstration of its new KIOXIA CM9 Series PCIe® 5.0 NVMe™ SSDs. These next-generation drives are the first enterprise SSDs built with Kioxia’s 8th generation BiCS FLASH™ TLC-based 3D flash memory¹, which incorporates CMOS directly Bonded to Array (CBA) technology – an architectural innovation that delivers significant advances in power efficiency, performance and density, and sustainability, while doubling available capacity² per flash device.

As the demands of modern computing intensify, applications such as AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing require a sophisticated solid state storage infrastructure – requiring not only enterprise-class performance, but also higher power efficiency to ensure scalability and manageable operational costs. Addressing these requirements is central to the design of the KIOXIA CM9 Series, which is purpose-built to support next-generation data center workloads.