Kioxia unveils GP Series super high IOPS SSD for AI systems

Kioxia America, Inc. announced the development of its Super High IOPS SSD, a new type of SSD that enables the GPU to directly access high-speed flash memory as an expansion to High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) in Artificial Intelligence systems. The product is branded as the KIOXIA GP Series and is positioned for Artificial Intelligence and high-performance computing environments.

The KIOXIA GP Series is designed to address growing performance demands by providing larger GPU-accessible memory capacity for faster data access to Artificial Intelligence workloads. The company frames the SSD as a way to extend available memory for GPUs, helping systems work with larger data sets while keeping data closer to compute resources.

The NVIDIA Storage-Next initiative addresses the anticipated shift from compute-intensive to data-intensive workloads and the expanded need for GPU-accessible memory space, currently limited by HBM size. Expanding the GPU’s usable memory space allows access to larger data sets and improves GPU utilization by moving more data closer to compute resources.

Evaluation samples of KIOXIA GP Series will be available to select customers by the end of 2026.