Kioxia beats its own world record with the fastest SSD ever produced — new PCIe 6.0 GP1 tops 20M IOPS and is part of Kioxia's plan to challenge DRAM in AI markets
THE SO WHAT
Flash pushing 20M+ random-read IOPS is a direct attempt to collapse the gap between storage and DRAM for AI workloads. Infra teams should re-run TCO models for training and retrieval-heavy inference—tiering strategies and memory-bound bottlenecks may look different with PCIe 6.0-class SSDs in the mix.
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