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It is great to see well deserved credit where credit is due. Yesterday at Flash Memory Summit 2025, our friends at KIOXIA were awarded the ‘Best in Show’ for their LC9 Series 245.76 TB Enterprise SSD and myself and Jon Coulter from Tweaktown were right there when the award arrived at the KIOXIA booth! Who chose this picture?
The LC9 is the industries first 245TB enterprise SSD that uses the newest KIOXIA Gen 8 3D QLC BiCS NAND flash memory with a 32-die stack and fits into a 2.5-inch and Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E3.L form factor.
“When customers evaluate SSDs, important consideration is given to storage that scales to high capacities while delivering high performance and low power consumption,” said Jay Kramer, Chair of the Awards Program and President of Network Storage Advisors Inc.
“We are proud to recognize KIOXIA for its BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory and KIOXIA LC9 Series SSD. This solution is enabled by their CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology and the innovation of a 32-die stacked architecture in a package – delivering the capacity, power and density required for transformational SSDs. Creating the highest capacity PCIe® 5.0 enterprise SSD is a remarkable achievement and a clear reflection of Kioxia’s leadership position.”
Featuring a 32-die stack of 2 terabit (Tb) 3 BiCS FLASH™ QLC 3D flash memory with innovative CBA technology, KIOXIA LC9 Series SSDs deliver the speed, scale, and density required to support the next wave of AI-centric workloads. This combination of advanced memory architecture and CBA technology enables 8 TB3 in a small 154 BGA package – also an industry first . This milestone was made possible with advancements in Kioxia’s high-precision wafer processing, material design, and wire bonding technologies.
