Kioxia Unveils High Performance XG10 Series SSDs for PC OEMs

KIOXIA Inc. announced the KIOXIA XG10 Series solid-state drives (SSDs), its latest high-performance client storage solution engineered for PC OEMs.Targeting the performance segment, the new KIOXIA XG10 Series leverages PCIe 5.0 technology to elevate speed and responsiveness across data-intensive client applications.With the KIOXIA XG10 Series, we are delivering enhanced performance that improves the overall client storage experience for content creators, gamers, and professionals working with increasingly demanding workloads.

Designed as the successor to the KIOXIA XG8 Series, the KIOXIA XG10 Series adopts a PCIe 5.0 interface, enabling improvements in both sequential and random performance. Compared to the previous generation¹, the new drives achieve up to 2x sequential read, more than 2x sequential write, and increases of approximately 122% in random read and 158% in random write performance – supporting faster data access and improved system responsiveness.

The KIOXIA XG10 Series is engineered to meet the needs of high-performance client system environments. These include professional applications, private AI training and inference, content creation and editing workflows, and immersive gaming experiences. With sequential read speeds of up to 14,000MB/s and sequential write speeds reaching up to 12,000MB/s, along with random read performance of up to 2,000KIO/s and random write performance up to 1,600KIO/s, the KIOXIA XG10 Series enables high-throughput performance for modern computing demands.

Additional features include:

PCIe5.0 (Gen5 x4) and NVMe 2.0d compliant
Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) support based on TCG Opal² version 2.02
Recommended for high-performance PC systems including AI PCs, workstations and gaming platforms
M.2 Type 2280 form factor
Capacities of 512GB, 1024GB, 2048GB, and 4096GB³

“PCIe 5.0 represents a major step forward for client storage, particularly in the performance segment,” said Maulik Sompura, senior staff director, product management, SSD business unit, KIOXIA. “With the KIOXIA XG10 Series, we are delivering significantly enhanced performance that improves the overall client storage experience for content creators, gamers, and professionals working with increasingly demanding workloads.”

The KIOXIA XG10 Series is currently sampling to select PC OEM customers, with PC shipments equipped with the SSD expected to begin from the second quarter of 2026.

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¹Compared to KIOXIA XG8 Series SSDs
^{2 Developed by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a not-for-profit international standards organization, the Opal spec is used for applying hardware-based encryption to solid state drives and is often referred to as TCG-Opal}.
³ KIOXIA XG10 Series 512GB , 1024GB models utilize BiCS FLASH generation 6 TLC-based flash memory, 2048GB, 4096GB models utilize BiCS FLASH generation 8 TLC-based flash memory

Definition of SSD capacity: Kioxia Corporation defines a kilobyte (KB) as 1,000 bytes, a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes, a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, and a kibibyte (KiB) is 1,024 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

– Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device, read and write conditions, and file size-
– IOPS: Input Output Per Second (or the number of I/O operations per second)
– Availability of the SED model lineup may vary by region
– NVMe is a registered or unregistered mark of NVM Express, Inc. in the United States and other countries
– PCIe is a registered trademark of PCI-SIG
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