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Kioxia Corporation has announced the KIOXIA BG8 Series client solid-state drives (SSDs), aimed at PC original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The drives are positioned as the next step in Kioxia’s client SSD lineup, bringing PCIe 5.0 performance to the mainstream segment for slim laptops, commercial and consumer notebooks, and desktop systems.
The BG8 Series is built using Kioxia’s BiCS FLASH generation 8 TLC-based 3D flash memory. Compared with the previous generation (KIOXIA BG7 Series), Kioxia says the BG8 Series delivers up to 47% higher sequential read, 67% higher sequential write, 44% higher random read, and 30% higher random write performance.
Sequential performance is rated at up to 10,300 MB/s for reads and up to 10,000 MB/s for writes. Random performance is rated at up to 1.4 million IOPS for reads and up to 1.3 million IOPS for writes, targeting responsive system performance across a range of client workloads.
The BG8 Series is DRAM-less and supports a Host Memory Buffer (HMB) feature, which uses host system memory to help balance performance, power consumption, and cost.
For system integration, the SSD is available in multiple M.2 form factors: Type 2230, Type 2242, and Type 2280.
Kioxia said the BG8 Series is currently sampling to select PC OEM customers. Shipments for PCs equipped with the SSD are expected to begin from the second quarter of 2026 onwards.
Kioxia notes that storage capacity definitions use decimal units (KB, MB, GB, TB) where 1 GB equals 1,000,000,000 bytes, while operating systems may report capacity using powers of 2 (for example, 1 GB = 2^30 bytes), which can result in lower displayed capacity. Read and write speeds may vary depending on the host device, conditions, and file size. IOPS refers to input/output operations per second.
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