Kioxia Corporation today announced the KIOXIA CM10 Series of solid-state drives (SSDs), featuring the company's latest BiCS FLASH generation 10 TLC flash memory. Designed for demanding enterprise and AI workloads, including AI inference and context caching, the new drives support the NVIDIA CMX architecture while delivering significant gains in performance, power efficiency, and cooling flexibility over the previous generation.
The KIOXIA CM10 Series is Kioxia's first PCIe 6.0 enterprise SSD and offers direct-cold-plate liquid cooling capability, enabling more efficient cooling deployments for next-generation AI infrastructure. Compared to the previous generation, the KIOXIA CM10 Series delivers up to approx. 92 % higher sequential read performance and up to approx. 85 % higher random read performance, helping to accelerate data-intensive AI inference and enterprise applications while improving overall system efficiency.