New KIOXIA CD8 Series Improves Performance by approximately 14% over previous generation SSDs
TOKYO, March 23 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — The first vendor to offer a drive designed with PCIe® 5.0 interface technology[¹], Kioxia Corporation today announced that it has built on this achievement by introducing its 2nd generation SSDs. The company’s new KIOXIA CD8 Series data center NVMe™ SSDs (“CD8 Series”) are optimized for hyperscale data center and enterprise server-attached workloads, and utilize PCIe 5.0 interface technology, which doubles the bandwidth over PCIe 4.0 from 16 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) to 32GT/s. The CD8 Series is now available for customer evaluation.