KIOXIA, AIO CORE AND KYOCERA ANNOUNCE DEVELOPMENT OF PCIE 5.0-COMPATIBLE BROADBAND OPTICAL SSD FOR NEXT-GENERATION GREEN DATA CENTERS

TOKYO, April 8 (Bernama) -- Kioxia Corporation, AIO Core Co., Ltd. and Kyocera Corporation today announced the development of a prototype of a PCIe® 5.0-compatible broadband SSD with an optical interface (broadband optical SSD). The three companies will develop technologies for broadband optical SSDs to enhance their suitability for advanced applications that require high-speed transfer of large data, such as generative AI, and will also apply them to proof-of-concept (PoC) tests for future social implementation.

The new prototype achieved functional operation with the high-speed PCIe 5.0 interface, which is twice the bandwidth of the previous PCIe 4.0 generation[¹], through the combination of AIO Core’s IOCore® optical transceiver and Kyocera’s OPTINITY® optoelectronic integration module technologies.