Kioxia's Broadband SSD with Optical Interface Wins 'Nimbus Innovation Award' in the Best SSD Innovation Category at CloudFest 2025

  • April 4, 2025
  • Kioxia Corporation

Tokyo – Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, today announced that its broadband SSD with an optical interface (Broadband Optical SSD) received the 'Nimbus Innovation Award' in the Best SSD Innovation category at CloudFest 2025, the annual cloud computing and internet infrastructure conference held in Germany between March 17th and March 20th. By replacing traditional electrical wiring interface with optical, this broadband optical SSD aims to extend communication distances within the data center while maintaining energy efficiency and high signal quality.

In addition, product demonstrations and presentations were given on the show floor at CloudFest 2025 and include:
 

  • Prototype of the KIOXIA LC9 Series 122.88 terabyte (TB) NVMe™ enterprise SSD for generative AI
  • Academy session on KIOXIA AiSAQ™ technology, a software technology utilizing SSDs that contributes to improving the accuracy of generative AI performance
  • Session on trends in storage technology supporting AI workloads and keynotes on NAND flash technology and broadband optical SSD technology .

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Notes

  • Definition of 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.

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