Last month, KIOXIA returned to NVIDIA® GTC 2026 in downtown San Jose as a silver sponsor, showcasing how our memory and SSD solutions are accelerating AI innovation. From packed demos to nonstop conversations with customers, collaborators, and media, one theme came through clearly: storage is central to what’s next in AI.
GTC remains one of the most important stages for developers, researchers, and business leaders pushing AI forward. This year, we put a spotlight on flash storage as a core enabler of scalable, efficient AI infrastructure. High-performance flash helps organizations get more from their AI investments - moving data faster, improving access, and shortening the path to insight.
AI-Ready Storage in Action
At our booth, curiosity quickly turned into deep technical conversations:
- Optimizing Memory Footprint for Vector Databases
KIOXIA AiSAQ™ technology showed how to reduce DRAM requirements without sacrificing performance. Paired with KIOXIA CM9 Series enterprise NVMe™ SSDs, it offers a more scalable path than DRAM for managing growing AI datasets.
- Super High IOPS SSD Emulator for AI-Ready Storage
A standout demo delivered over 100 million IOPS, giving attendees a look at what ultra-high-performance storage can enable in demanding environments like SCADA.
- High-Capacity QLC Storage for Large Datasets
KIOXIA LC9 Series enterprise NVMe SSDs - up to 245.76 TB - demonstrated fast access to massive datasets, supporting both AI training and inference at scale.
Introducing the KIOXIA GP Series SSDs
GTC also marked the launch of our new KIOXIA GP Series SSDs for AI GPU-initiated workloads. These Super High IOPS SSDs deliver high performance and low-latency memory expansion for the NVIDIA Storage-Next Architecture.
Designed for AI and high-performance computing, the KIOXIA GP Series expands GPU-accessible memory capacity - helping accelerate data access where it matters most. Evaluation samples are expected to be available to select customers by the end of 2026. Read more about the GP Series here: https://americas.kioxia.com/en-us/business/news/2026/ssd-20260316-1.html.
On the Ground at GTC
NVIDIA GTC 2026 took over downtown San Jose, with activity across the city.
The main event at the San Jose Convention Center and a packed keynote at the SAP Center underscored the momentum behind AI.
On the show floor, our booth stayed full - often standing room only. Demos ran continuously, conversations moved fast, and interest in storage’s role in AI was unmistakable. Our Innovation Lab team kept things moving, guiding attendees through hands-on demos and real-world use cases.
We also connected with industry voices, including members of the media covering the event, to talk about how storage is enabling AI at scale.
Looking Ahead
GTC 2026 made one shift clear: AI is moving from experimentation to production - across data centers, physical AI, and agentic systems.
KIOXIA is right in the middle of that shift, delivering memory and SSD solutions that help customers move faster, scale smarter, and unlock what’s next.
Notes:
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Definition of SSD capacity: KIOXIA Corporation defines a kilobyte (KB) as 1,000 bytes, a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes, a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, and a kibibyte (KiB) is 1,024 bytes. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes and 1TB = 2^40 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.