Kioxia, StorOne, Phison And Marvell Deliver Storage And Memory For AI

Forbes

5 days ago

AI Data Growth
Artificial Intelligence training and inference are a major factor in increasing digital storage and memory demand growth. According to a recent announcement from the Dell'Oro Group, the AI expansion cycle led to a 62% year over year growth in Q1 2025 in telecommunications, security, networks and data center industries, including memory and storage. Let's look at some recent storage announcements to support AI workloads from Kioxia, StorOne and Phison and Marvell Technologies.
Kioxia recently announced its single port CD9P Series PCIe 5.0 NVMe 2.0 SSDs built with the company's 8thgeneration BiCS Flash TLC-based 3D flash memories (with 330 layers--?). These products also incorporate the company's CMOS directly Bonded to Array technology to boost power efficiency, performance, and storage density. Images of the product family are shown below.
Kioxia CD9P SSD Product Family
According to Kioxia, the CD9P Series is purpose-built for these next-generation environments, delivering the speed and responsiveness required by AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads to ensure GPUs stay fed with data and operating at maximum efficiency. The product is available in EDSFF E3.S form factor with 1.6-30.72 TB capacities and 2.5-inch U.2 form factor with 1.6-61.44TB capacities.
The CD9P Series 15.36 TB model delivers approximately 60% and 45% improvements in sequential read and write speeds per watt, respectively, compared to the previous generation Kioxia SSD. It also achieves gains of approximately 55% and 100% in random read and write performance per watt, measured in thousands of IOPS (KIOPS), respectively. The product is being sampled to select customers and was on display at the on-going HPE Discover Las Vegas event. The table below gives more details on this model's performance with different workflows.
CD9P Performance versus Workloads
StorOne unveiled its ONEai, Automated AI Solution Optimized for Enterprise Data Storage in partnership with SSD company, Phison Electronics. StorONE integrated Phison's aiDAPTIV+ AI capabilities into the StorONE enterprise storage system to accelerate AI deployment and deliver domain specific responses on the stored data for end users.
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According to StorOne, ONEai leverages AI GPU and memory optimization, intelligent data placement and built-in support for LLM inferencing and fine-tuning directly within the storage framework, offering an efficient, AI-integrated system with minimal setup complexity. With ONEai, users benefit from reduced power, operational and hardware costs, enhanced GPU performance and on-premises LLM training and inferencing on proprietary organizational data.
Marvell Technology, Inc. announced that it has expanded its custom technology platform with the launch of a 2nm custom Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), designed to boost the performance of custom XPUs and devices powering cloud data centers and AI clusters. It also introduced its Package Integrated Voltage Regulator (PIVR) power solutions, which it says enable hyperscalers to enhance the performance, efficiency and return on investment (ROI) of AI and cloud infrastructure.
This custom SRAM delivers up to 6 gigabits of high-speed memory. Marvell said that it had previously introduced its CXL technology for integration into custom silicon to add terabytes of memory and supplemental compute capacity to cloud servers and unveiled custom HBM technology that increases memory capacity by up to 33% while reducing the space and power required for dense high-bandwidth memory (HBM) stacks inside XPUs.
AI drives storage and memory demand. Kioxia, StorOne, Phison and Marvell Technologies announced digital storage and memory applications to support diverse AI workloads.