Kioxia Launches New XG10 PCIe 5 SSD Series for AI PCs, Workstations, and Gaming

KIOXIA just introduced its XG10 Series, a new high-performance client SSD family targeting PC OEMs for desktop and mobile applications. The XG10 succeeds the XG8 Series but adopts a PCIe 5.0 (Gen5 x4) interface and NVMe 2.0d compliance to deliver substantial generational gains in both sequential and random performance. KIOXIA positions the XG10 for demanding client workloads such as local AI training and inference, professional content creation and editing, and gaming.

KIOXIA XG10 series drives offer sequential read speeds of up to 14,000 MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 12,000 MB/s, along with random read performance of up to 2,000 KIOPS and random write performance up to 1,600 KIOPS.

Versus the prior XG8 generation, the XG10 achieves up to 2x sequential read, more than 2x sequential write, and ~122% improvement in random read, and ~158% improvement in random write, for faster transfers improved system responsiveness. The drives are...

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