Kioxia's new PCIe 6.0 SSDs want to be the cheap alternative to expensive AI memory

KIOXIA GP Series Super High IOPS PCIe SSD Named 'Best of Show' at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage 2026

KIOXIA GP1 Series SSD reaches 10M random read IOPS, industry's first GPU-optimized NVMe SSD, wins FMS Best of Show award. Flash tier extends HBM for AI systems, cutting memory-scaling costs while enabling larger datasets without costly DRAM expansion.