FMS 2025: Kioxia Showcases Breakthrough Flash Storage Solutions

Kioxia America, Inc. will once again take center stage at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage 2025 to spotlight how its flash memory and SSD innovations are driving scalable, efficient infrastructure for AI.

With a focus on real-world applications and performance gains, Kioxia will demonstrate how its latest solutions meet the evolving demands of AI across data center and enterprise environments.

At FMS 2025, the company will spotlight its newest products, including the high-capacity Kioxia LC9 Series – an industry’s first ⁽¹⁾ 245.76TB ⁽²⁾ NVMe SSD. Additional highlights include the firm’s CM9 Series and CD9P Series SSDs built with the company’s BiCS FLASH Gen 8 3D flash memory, delivering performance, power efficiency, and versatility. The firm will also display BiCS FLASH Gen 9 memory, which uses 1Tb ⁽³⁾ 3bit/cell technology and utilizes the CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) architecture introduced in the Gen 8. BiCS FLASH Gen 9 memory provides improvements in data read speed and power consumption reduction, PI-LLT and SCA.

“AI is redefining data infrastructure – and Kioxia is transforming storage to match,” said Scott Nelson, EVP and CMO, Kioxia America. “As a pioneer in flash memory, Kioxia is leading the way with scalable, high-performance solutions purpose-built for AI. Our latest BiCS FLASH technology – featuring a 32-die stack QLC architecture and innovative CBA technology – delivers an industry-first ⁽¹⁾ 8TB ⁽³⁾ per chip package. This milestone sets a new standard for the performance, scale, and efficiency required to support next-generation AI workloads.”

At FMS, Kioxia will give keynote presentation and several educational sessions covering a range of topics:

FMS Keynote Presentation:
Tuesday, August 5 at 11:00 am PDT :Optimize AI Infrastructure Investments with Flash Memory Technology and Storage Solutions – Katsuki Matsudera, GM, memory technical marketing managing department, Kioxia Corporation, and Neville Ichhaporia, SVP and GM, SSD business unit, Kioxia America, will present this keynote session.

Executive AI Premier Level Panel:
Thursday, August 7 at 11:00 am PDT: Memory and Storage Scaling for AI Inferencing – Rory Bolt, senior fellow and principal architect, SSD business unit, Kioxia America, will participate in an executive session, which brings together a panel of experts from inside NVIDIA and across the storage and memory industry. The panel provide insight on how to avoid potential pitfalls and configure, secure, and tune to get the most out of storage and memory for different AI applications.

The company’s expertise will also be featured in panel discussions and educational tracks throughout the week.

Educational Speaking Sessions by Kioxia:
Monday, August 4: Professional Development Series Track – 1:00-2:45 pm  – PDSD1: Kioxia AiSAQ OSS: Scaling RAG Beyond DRAM Limits with SSD  – Speaker: Rory Bolt – Review of Kioxia AiSAQ

Tuesday, August 5: Automotive Applications Track – 8:30-9:35 am – AUTO-101-1: Software Defined Vehicles – Speaker: Kevin Hsu – How UFS Storage is Evolving for On-Device AI and Autonomous Vehicles

AI and ML Applications Track – 9:45-10:50 am – AIML-102-1: Storage for AI: Applications – Speaker: Assaf Sella – All-in-storage ANNS Algorithms Optimize Performance Within a RAG System

Computational Storage Track – 9:45-10:50 am – COMP-102-1: Computational Storage Implementations and Ideas – Speaker: Mahinder Saluja – Integrate Multiple Offload Fixed Function Storage Services to Storage Subsystem

Wednesday, August 6: SSD Tech Track – 8:30–9:35 am – SSDT-201-1: SSD Technologies for AI and the DC – Speaker: Rory Bolt – High IOs SSD for AI Applications

Data Security/Ransomware Protection Track – 8:30–9:35 am – DSEC-201-1: Data Defense: Advanced Protection Strategies and Compliance – Speaker: Paul Suhler – Sanitization: Product Requirements and Legal Requirements

Industry Associations Track – 8:30–9:35 am – INDA-201-1: NVMe State of the Union, Configurable Device Security and QoS – Speaker: Cameron Brett (Chairperson) – Hosting the session

CXL Track: 3:20–4:25 pm – CXLT-203-1: CXL Use Cases – Speaker: Mahinder Saluja – Eliminate Data Bottlenecks with CXL Interface and Low-latency XL-Flash

SSD Technology Track – 3:20–4:25 pm – SSDT-203-1: High Cap SSDs and Optimizations for QLC Flash Storage – Speaker: Mike Klemm – Transformative Advancements in SSDs

FDP and ZNS Track – 3:20–4:25 pm – FARC-203-1: Flash Architectures and Provisioning – Speaker: Rory Bolt – FDP Use Cases

Thursday, August 7: DC Storage and Memory Track – 8:30–9:35 am – DCTR-301-1: Enterprise Storage and SSD – Speaker: Mahinder Saluja – Offloading Storage Compute Tasks from DPU to SSD Can Free Compute Resources

NVMe Track – 9:45–10:50 am – NVME-302-1: NVMe New Features – Speaker: Cameron Brett (Organizer) – NVMe protocol innovations and their implications for future architectures

SSD Technology Track – 1:25–2:30 pm – SSDT-304-1: Error Correction, Reliability, and Telemetry Techniques for SSDs – Speaker: Devesh Rai – Data Scrubbing and Rebuild in a High-capacity SSD Environment

QLC and PLC Track – 1:25–2:30 pm – QLCP-304-1: Multi-Level Cells Part 2 – Speaker: Kevin Hsu – Enabling Higher Capacity Storage with QLC UFS

Data Security/Ransomware Protection Track – 1:25–2:30 pm – DSEC-304-1: Quantum Resilience: The New Storage Security Frontier – Speaker: Paul Suhler – Get Ready for Post Quantum Cryptography

Kioxia Booth Demos
Product and technology demonstrations will be given in the iconic 2-level Kioxia booth #307 – featuring ten separate exhibit locations – on the show floor, including:

• Expanding Use Cases – High-Capacity Package/Low Latency Flash memory: 32-die stack in a small BGA package of BiCS FLASH Gen 8 QLC 3D flash memory /XL-FLASH with a CXL interface
• BiCS FLASH Gen 9 3D Flash Memory: 1 Tb ⁽³⁾ wafer and a small BGA package with 512 Gb chip
• BiCS FLASH Gen 10 3D Flash Memory: 1 Tb ⁽³⁾ wafer and model display
• Kioxia UFS – Consumer and Automotive: High performance solutions for evolving markets
• High Capacity 245.76 TB ⁽²⁾ SSD in Dell PowerEdge 7715: Featuring Kioxia LC9 Series Enterprise NVMe SSDs
• Performance and Power Demo: Featuring Kioxia CD9P Series Data Center NVMe SSDs
• ML Perf Storage Training: Featuring CM9 Series Enterprise NVMe SSDs
• GPU direct SSD Emulation: Investigating GPU direct storage devices at 143 million IOs
• Kioxia AiSAQ Software: Enabling flexible balancing of capacity and performance
• RAID Offload and Data Scrubbing: Featuring the company’s CM7 Series Enterprise NVMe SSDs.

⁽¹⁾ As of August 4, 2025. Based on a Kioxia survey.
⁽²⁾ Definition of SSD capacity: Kioxia Corporation defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes and 1TB = 2^40 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.
⁽³⁾ The flash memory capacity is calculated as 1 terabit (1 Tb) = 1,099,511,627,776 (2^40) bits, and 1 terabyte (1 TB) = 1,099,511,627,776 (2^40) bytes.