Event Report: FMS 2025 - KIOXIA Showcases Breakthrough Flash Storage Solutions that Help Scale AI Without Limits

October 23, 2025

The Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) 2025 event, the world's largest event on flash memory and storage held in Santa Clara, USA, brought together the world’s innovators shaping the future of memory and storage – and, once again, Kioxia was right at the center of the action. From the show floor to the keynote hall, we showcased how our flash memory and SSD innovations are driving scalable, efficient infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI). With product debuts, milestone announcements, and packed educational sessions - including the opening keynote – Kioxia made a powerful impact at FMS 2025, showing how we’re redefining what’s possible for tomorrow’s AI-driven infrastructure.

KIOXIA - Scale AI Without Limits | FMS 2025 Highlights (Video, 2:27)

KIOXIA Keynote: Optimizing AI Infrastructure Investments with Flash Memory Technology & Storage Solutions

Katsuki Matsudera, General Manager of the memory technical marketing managing department for Kioxia Corporation, and Neville Ichhaporia, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the SSD business unit for KIOXIA America, Inc. helped kick off the event with the first industry keynote session.

FMS 2025 - KIOXIA Keynote (Video, 36:42)

KIOXIA LC9 Series SSD won a Best of Show Award for Most Innovative Technology

Award Winning KIOXIA SSD and Memory Technology Innovation

Press Release: KIOXIA LC9 Series 245.76 TB Enterprise SSD with Innovative 32-die Stack Memory Named ‘Best of Show’ at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage 2025

KIOXIA LC9 Series 245.76 terabyte (TB) Enterprise SSDs integrate with innovative 32-die stack memory

Breakthrough Storage for the AI Era

At the center of our presence was the debut of the KIOXIA LC9 Series NVMe™ SSD - the industry’s first* 245.76 TB drive. Purpose-built for the performance and efficiency demands of generative AI environments, this milestone drive received an FMS ‘Best of Show’ award in the ‘Most Innovative Technology’ category.

We also highlighted the KIOXIA CM9 Series and KIOXIA CD9P Series, built on our BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 3D flash memory. These solutions deliver the performance, power efficiency, and versatility needed to support AI training and inference across data centers, enterprise applications, and beyond.

As of August 6, 2025. Based on a Kioxia survey.

Press Release: KIOXIA Announces Industry’s First 245.76 TB NVMe SSD Built for the Demands of Generative AI Environments

Press Release: Kioxia Announces First Enterprise NVMe™ SSD Built with 8th Generation BiCS FLASH™ TLC-Based Flash Memory Technology

Press Release: Kioxia Broadens 8th Generation BiCS FLASH™ SSD Portfolio with High-Performance Data Center NVMe™ SSDs to Maximize GPU Utilization in AI and HPC (High-performance computing) Workloads

In addition to the keynote, FMS host several speaking sessions throughout the week, including an Executive AI Premier Level Panel, panel discussions and educational tracks. Kioxia had a major presence at this year’s show participating in multiple speaking sessions. At the Executive AI Premier Level Panel highlighting “Memory and Storage Scaling for AI Inferencing”, our sessions reinforced the message of scaling AI without limits, exploring and discussing different perspectives on how to find the right balance for generative AI, machine learning, and other demanding workloads. From cost efficiency to breakthrough scalability, Kioxia solutions give organizations the foundation to accelerate AI innovation.

Kioxia kicked off the show with a pre-event training session in the Professional Series highlighting KIOXIA AiSAQ™ features and benefits

KIOXIA Booth and Live Demos

At the Kioxia booth attendees got up close and personal with the latest solutions in a wide range of live product and technology demonstrations including:

Expanding Use Cases - High-Capacity Package/Low Latency Flash memory: 32-die stack in a small BGA package of BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 QLC 3D flash memory / XL-FLASH with a CXL™ interface
KIOXIA BiCS FLASH™ generation 9 3D Flash Memory: 1 terabit (Tb) wafer and a small BGA package with 512 Gb chip
KIOXIA BiCS FLASH™ generation 10 3D Flash Memory: 1 Tb wafer and model display
KIOXIA UFS - Consumer and Automotive: High performance solutions for evolving markets
High Capacity 245.76 TB 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 KIOXIA CM9 Series Enterprise NVMe SSDs
GPU Direct SSD Emulation: Investigating GPU direct storage devices at 143 million IOPS
KIOXIA AiSAQ Software: Enabling flexible balancing of capacity and performance
RAID Offload and Data Scrubbing: Featuring KIOXIA CM7 Series Enterprise NVMe SSDs

The Kioxia booth attracted many attendees as they entered the show floor

Scale AI Without Limits – Make It with KIOXIA

Many attendees visited the Kioxia booth to experience the live demos

Attendees were interested in learning about the latest BiCS FLASH™ model and CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) architecture

A demo station showcasing the performance of the KIOXIA CD9P Series Data Center SSD

Live demonstration highlighting the performance of the KIOXIA CM9 Series Enterprise SSD

The UFS station demonstrated the performance benefits of UFS 4.1

A popular demo showing the layers in an actual memory chip under a laser microscope

A display of Kioxia memory and storage product lines

The actual Linus Media Group and Kioxia Guinness World Records™ Certificate for the “Most Accurate Value of Pi” was also a popular draw at the event

FMS 2025 gave us the perfect opportunity to have a discussion to strengthen the ecosystem that makes true progress in infrastructure possible together and connect with customers, media, and peers who share our vision. A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth or joined us for a session.

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 1 GB = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes and 1 TB = 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.
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.
PCIe is a registered trademark of PCI-SIG.
NVMe is a registered or unregistered mark of NVM Express, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
CXL is a trademark of Compute Express Link Consortium, Inc.
Dell, PowerEdge and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries.
Universal Flash Storage (UFS) is a product category for a class of embedded memory products built to the JEDEC UFS standard specification.
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS is a trademark of Guinness World Records Limited.
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Information on this page is current as of the time of the event.