Kioxia Unveils Cutting-Edge CD9P PCIe 5 SSDs To Fuel AI And HPC Workloads

Kioxia is demonstrating some prototype storage solutions built around its 8th generation BiCS Flash memory featuring CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology, which the company is billing as a breakthrough architecture for data center SSDs. Called the CD9P series, these PCIe 5.0 NVMe storage solutions promise to significantly boost power efficiency, performance, and storage density with double the capacity than the previous generation SSDs. The announcement comes several months after Kioxia and SanDisk teamed up to give 3D falsh memory a speed boost (the two announcements are unrelated).

More specifically, Kioxia is offering the CD9P series in capacities ranging from 1.6TB all the way up to 61.44TB in the 2.5-inch (U.2) form factor, and 1.6TB to 30.72TB in the EDSFF E3.2 form factor.

Performance varies by model and capacity, but according to Kioxia, data center customers can expect up ...