Kioxia has announced the availability of preview samples of its Automotive Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Ver. 3.1 designed for automotive electronics. Modules are planned to be released in 64, 128, 256 and 512 GB capacities. They use proprietary flash memory BiCS FLASH. Taking into account the area of application, drives are guaranteed to remain operational […]
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Kioxia to expand flash memory production at Kitakami
Kioxia announced the start of construction of a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility (Fab2) at its Kitakami plant in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. The new capacities will expand the production of BiCS FLASH 3D Flash memory. The construction of the facility is scheduled to begin in April 2022, and it should be completed in 2023. According to […]
Kioxia PM7 SSDs feature 24Gb/s SAS interface
Kioxia has announced that the PM7 series enterprise SSDs are available for customer evaluation. Designed for enterprise applications and use cases, including supercomputing, artificial intelligence, caching, and financial trading and analysis, these drives deliver enhanced performance, reliability, and security for enterprise servers and storage systems. With a focus on security, the PM7 Series SSDs are […]
Kioxia releases first UFS modules complying with MIPI M-PHY v5.0 specification
Kioxia announced the availability of samples of the industry’s first embedded UFS flash drives that comply with the MIPI M-PHY v5.0 specification. They use proprietary flash memory BiCS FLASH. Drives designed for use in mobile devices will be available in 128, 256 and 512 GB. The mentioned MIPI M-PHY 5.0 standard provides for a theoretical […]
Kioxia BG5 SSDs are PCIe 4.0
Kioxia introduced the BG5 series solid state drives. These PCIe 4.0 x 4 SSDs, according to Kioxia, are “designed to provide the best balance of performance, cost, and power consumption.” They use the fifth generation 3D BiCS FLASH from Kioxia. The BG5 Series is attractive for use in a wide range of corporate and private […]
Serial production of Kioxia EM6 solid-state drives equipped with 25 GbE ports has begun
Kioxia has announced the launch of EM6 series solid state drives for storage systems such as EBOF (Ethernet Bunch of Flash). To obtain high data transfer rates, these drives use the NVMe-oF (NVMe over Fabric) protocol, which differs from NVMe in that it is not PCIe, but Ethernet as the transport layer. NVMe-oF support is […]
Kioxia launches EDSFF E1 solid state drives. for data centers
Keeping in mind the growing demands of enterprise infrastructures, Kioxia has announced that it is ready to start mass production of its XD6 series solid state drives. This is an EDSFF E1.S SSD with a thickness of 9.5 mm. Introduced in late 2020, they were the first EDSFF E1.S SSDs to meet the specific hyperscale […]
Kioxia Introduces First EDSFF PCIe 5.0 Solid State Drives
Kioxia has announced the release of the CD7 E3.S. According to the manufacturer, these are the industry’s first Enterprise and Data Center (EDSFF) E3.S SSDs equipped with a PCIe 5.0 interface. The engineering prototypes that served as the basis for production products were presented by Kioxia at last year’s Flash Memory Summit. The off-the-shelf SSDs […]
Kioxia Shown PCIe Gen 5.0 SSD Prototype Delivers Read Speed Up to 14,000MB / s
Kioxia has demonstrated the first benchmarks of next-generation solid state drives that deliver double the bandwidth of existing models. The increase is provided by the transition from PCIe Gen 4.0 to PCIe Gen 5.0. The PCIe Gen 5.0 SSD prototype delivers sequential read speeds of up to 14,000 MB / s and write speeds of […]
TransMemory U366 and 1TB Exceria Plus microSD card introduced
Kioxia Europe GmbH has issued a press release for the TransMemory U366 series of USB drives. These flash drives are available in 16, 32, 64 and 128 GB sizes. They are equipped with USB 3.2 Gen 1 interfaces and are compatible with macOS v10.12-v11.0, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. The device measures 39 x 12.2 […]