BiCS flash with CXL can provide read intensive high capacity memory while CXL with XL-Flash offers a combination of single level and two level flash memory for more write intensive applications. A Cachelib simulation for CXL with XL-Flash provided a 5X improvement in performance.
The company also announced and was demonstrating in their booth, a ruler sized software enabled flash SSD, which allows sophisticated programming of their SSDs providing total host control with an open-source API. Kioxia is looking for partners and vendors for this technology. The figure below shows a concept for enabling future AI inference that allows customization of results using private and confidential data in flash memory.
An 8TB drive provides 400k IOPS and provides a 60% power efficiency improvement. MTBF is 2.5M hours. It is available in a 2.5-inch standard-sized product with capacities up to 15.36TB. Additional form factor products with capacities as low as 3.84TB and up to 30.72TB are expected in the first half of 2024.