Storage giant Kioxia announced a partnership with NVIDIA to create a solid-state drive with a read speed nearly a hundred times faster than traditional SSDs, which is expected to be launched before 2027.It is reported that this product will mainly serve the server market required for generative AI computing and is expected to bring a new generation of innovation to the market.
According to Nikkei reports, this major cooperation project was revealed by Kioxia at an AI market technology briefing held in Tokyo on September 2. Kioxia SSD stated that the company is advancing development in accordance with NVIDIA's proposals and requirements.
Different from the traditional SSD that needs to be connected to the GPU through the CPU, this new type of SSD will achieve direct connection and data exchange with the GPU. This direct connection mode can greatly improve data transmission efficiency and is crucial for AI computing.
Kioxia emphasized that in order to meet the extreme demand,The random read performance of this SSD will reach 100 million IOPS (Input Output Per Second), which is approximately 100 times that of traditional products.
Considering that NVIDIA requires 200 million IOPS for the SSD connected to the GPU, Kioxia plans to achieve this through the cooperative operation of two SSDs..This innovative product is expected to support PCIe 7.0, the next-generation standard for the PCIe (PCI Express) interface, laying the foundation for high-speed transmission.
Kioxia predicts that the development goal of high-speed SSD is not only to expand GPU memory capacity, but more importantly, to replace some of the HBM (high-bandwidth memory) currently used in AI servers.
This development is expected to provide more cost-effective, highly elastic and easily scalable memory solutions for AI computing.
The collaboration between Kioxia and NVIDIA heralds the innovation of AI server storage technology and will accelerate the development and application of AI technology.
