CES 2021: Kioxia America Showcased Flash Memory Advancements

At CES 2021, Kioxia America, Inc. has showcased flash memory advancements.

The company has demonstrated its latest flash and SSD solutions, including the industry’s first PCIe 4.0 NVMe cloud-specification-enabled SSD ⁽¹⁾ and its first PCIe 4.0 client SSDs for notebooks, desktops, and workstations.

At this year’s virtual CES event, the company has collaborated with its customers and technology partners to take on the future – together.

According to Alex Mei, VP, corporate marketing, “We are working closely with our customers across applications to shape the next gen of storage and address growing data demands. We’re always excited about seeing our flash memory, SSD and software technologies being leveraged in innovative new ways, and their continued deployment in fast-growing applications like the cloud and automotive will be on full display at CES.“

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Inventor of flash memory, the company has one a broad portfolios of SSDs available, including solutions for client PCs, data center, hyperscale, high-end servers and storage systems.

Demonstrations of new products include the PCIe 4.0 Open Compute Platform (OCP) NVMe cloud spec-enabled SSD1 and new additions to its KumoScale software that bring faster NVMe-oF storage to containers.

CES digital presence
The company’s digital presence at CES featured content and videos highlighting a cross section of the company’s flash solutions. For even more detail, visitors went to the firm’s 3D virtual booth, where they saw demos and get information on the entire breadth of Kioxia products and solutions. The 3D virtual booth can be accessed.

Virtual booth demos
Kioxia’s 3D virtual following technology and product demos:

• XL-Flash storage class memory

• KumoScale storage software

• BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory

• EDSFF E1.x XD6 Series SSDs

• Enterprise SAS SSDs in Dell EMC PowerFlex software-defined storage solutions family running Kubernetes stateful application Apache Cassandra

• PM6, a 24Gb enterprise SAS SSDs, in MySQL demo highlighting the performance of 24Gb SAS

• CM6 enterprise NVMe SSDs highlighting the performance benefits of PCIe Gen 4 vs Gen 3 SSDs

• CM6 enterprise NVMe SSDs in a VMware vSAN platform high-performance demo

• RM5 Value SAS and CD5 data center NVMe SSD demonstrations highlighting the performance difference between NVMe and SAS solutions over SATA in:

  • • • • Virtualized workloads

        • Database analytics workloads

        • Transactional database workloads

• Software-enabled flash technology

• UFS and e-MMC managed flash solutions

• Demo boards for use with new automotive and mobile applications

• Industrial SLC flash memory components

⁽¹⁾ Based on a survey of publicly available information as of November 3, 2020.