Kioxia's new PCIe 6.0 SSDs want to be the cheap alternative to expensive AI memory
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Gone In A Flash: Generative AI and other LLM-based tools are facing a significant data bandwidth challenge. Computational power continues to grow exponentially, but the massive amounts of data required for AI training and inference still has to pass through interfaces and storage technologies with limited bandwidth capabilities. Kioxia is proposing a novel solution by bringing NAND flash memory closer to the GPU.
Japanese memory manufacturer Kioxia is bringing a new class of super-fast SSDs to the enterprise market. The Kioxia GP1 Series is based on the PCIe 6.0 interface and can leverage the NVMe 2.2 protocol to serve as a middle ground between "pure" NVMe storage solutions and high-bandwidth memory VRAM soldered directly onto a GPU or AI accelerator's PCB.
The GP1 Super High IOPS SSDs can achieve 10 million input/output operations...
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