FMS 2024: Kioxia Spotlights Flash Solutions Shaping Future of Storage

Kioxia Corp. will be at FMS 2024 (Future of Memory and Storage) to highlight how its flash memory solutions are driving advancements and improvements in 100s of applications across a range of market segments – from AI, IoT, and automotive to data centers, the cloud and the edge.

Key highlights will include the industry’s highest capacity ⁽¹⁾ 2Tb QLC flash memory featuring the latest BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory as well as NVMe SSDs enabling AI workloads and Kioxia RAID Offload technology.

The firm invented flash memory more than 35 years ago, and is committed to making memory solutions that enable the applications of tomorrow. Prior to the show this week, it was recognized by FMS with the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2024. The company’s engineering team was honored with this award for its pioneering work creating and commercializing 3D flash memory – a technology that has become fundamental to every flash memory-based product today. The award presentation took place on August 6 as part of the opening keynotes.

“Flash storage solutions from Kioxia are at the heart of countless applications, driving innovation across a diverse array of industries,” said Scott Nelson, EVP and CMO, Kioxia America, Inc. “Our advanced memory solutions are integral to the functionality and advancement of modern technology. Whether you’re looking to upgrade, create, or innovate, you can make it with Kioxia. We unlock new possibilities and turn visions into realities.”

At FMS 2024, Kioxia will give a keynote presentation and several educational sessions covering a range of topics:

FMS Keynote Presentation:
Memory Innovations Fueling the New Currency of Our Digital World
August 6

Atsushi Inoue, VP and technology executive, memory division, Kioxia Corp., and Neville Ichhaporia, SVP and GM, SSD business unit, Kioxia America will present this keynote session.

Executive AI Premier Level Panel:
Storage and Memory Innovation for AI Workloads
August 8

Rory Bolt, senior fellow and principal architect, SSD business unit, Kioxia America, will participate in an executive session, hosted and moderated by NVIDIA, that assembles a panel of experts from across the storage and memory industry to provide insights into solutions for different AI applications.

Special AI Panel:
Emerging Technologies for AI Chip and Generative AI Optimization
August 8

Led by an industry analyst, Bolt will join other invited speakers from influential processor, memory and generative AI companies to discuss the hardware and software technologies driving the future of AI chips and generative AI customer implementations.

Educational Sessions by KIOXIA:

SSD Technology Track
Tuesday, 8/6
SSDT-102-1: SSD Technologies for Compute Use Cases
Speaker: Devesh Rai

• Review of RAID Offload Concept

8/6
SSDT-102-1: SSD Technologies for Compute Use Cases
Speaker: Nick Snow

• PCIe 6.0 SSDs: Powering the Future of Compute and Storage

8/8
SSDT-304-1: New Form Factors and Interfaces for SSDs
Speaker: Ilya Cherkasov

• New Form Factors and Interfaces for SSDs

Flash Architectures Track
8/6,
FARP-101-1: FDP and ZNS
Speaker: Rory Bolt

• Flexible Data Placement (FDP): What Every Storage Architect Should Know

Sustainability Track
8/7
SUST-202-1: Sustainable Data Centers and Energy Efficiency
Speaker: Satvik Vyas

• Achieve Significant Reduction in Data Movement by Offloading Data Scrubbing

CXL Track
8/8,
CXLT-301-1:
Speaker: Mahinder Saluja

• TCO Use Cases for CXL Attached Flash Memory

Networks and Connections Track
8/8
NETC-302-1: NVMe over Fabrics Is Everywhere
Speaker: Mahinder Saluja

• Redefining Data Redundancy with RAID Offload

AI/ML Track
8/7
AIML-203-1: Generative AI
Speaker: Assaf Sella

• Flash is Driving Scale in RAG-based LLMs

SuperWomen in Flash Track
8/7
Evolution Courtyard, Floor 1
Speaker: Jenna Fong

• Celebrating the success of women in the industry

Booth Demos
Product and technology demonstrations will be given in the iconic 2-level Kioxia booth – featuring 8 separate exhibit locations – on the show floor including:

• Next-gen Kioxia BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory: Display showing CMOS Bonded Array (CBA) architecture and a lateral density model.
• CM7 Series E3.S Enterprise NVMe SSDs: Live demo running a BaM workload and highlighting the EDSFF form factor.
• Optical NVMe SSD technology: Featuring CM7 Series Enterprise NVMe SSDs.
• CD8P Series Data Center SSDs: Live demo running AiSAQ ANN search for AI.
• CXL solutions: Featuring BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory and XL-FLASH high-bandwidth, low-latency CXL solutions.
• RAID offload technology: Move RAID functionality to SSDs.
• Automotive UFS: Driving the future of automotive applications.
• XD7P Series E1.S Data Center SSDs: Demo of Live Migration.

⁽¹⁾ Source: As of July 3, 2024. Kioxia survey.