Kioxia Targets Performance Segment With Latest SSD Series 

KUALA LUMPUR, May 14 (Bernama) -- Kioxia Corporation has unveiled the KIOXIA XG10 Series solid state drives (SSDs), its latest high-performance client storage solution engineered for personal computer (PC) original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

Targeting the performance segment, the new KIOXIA XG10 Series leverages PCIe 5.0 technology to significantly elevate speed and responsiveness across data-intensive client applications.

Designed as the successor to the KIOXIA XG8 Series, the latest SSD adopts the PCIe 5.0 interface, enabling improvements in both sequential and random performance, according to Kioxia in a statement.

Compared with the previous generation, the new drives deliver up to twice the sequential read performance and more than double the sequential write performance, as well as approximately 122 per cent higher random read and 158 per cent higher 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, including professional applications, private artificial intelligence training and inference, content creation and editing workflows, as well as immersive gaming experiences.

The series supports sequential read speeds of up to 14,000 megabytes per second (MB/s), sequential write speeds of up to 12,000 MB/s, random read performance of up to 2,000 KIOPS, and random write performance of up to 1,600 KIOPS.

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.

-- BERNAMA