Kioxia Introduces 2nd Generation SSDs Designed With PCIe® 5.0 Technolo…

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. Th...