NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Zion Williamson scored 27 points and the New Orleans Pelicans defeated the injury-depleted Dallas Mavericks 129-111 on Monday night.
Saddiq Bey had 23 points, while Jeremiah Fears and Trey Murphy III each added 17 to help the Pelicans win for the eighth time in 12 games.
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Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd stands during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans in New Orleans, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ella Hall)
New Orleans Pelicans forward Trey Murphy III celebrates after a play during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks in New Orleans, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ella Hall)
Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg celebrates after a play during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans in New Orleans, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ella Hall)
New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson dunks during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks in New Orleans, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ella Hall)
Naji Marshall scored 32 points for the Mavs against his former team. Dallas rookie Cooper Flagg, the top pick in the 2025 draft, had 21 points, eight assists and seven rebounds.
Williamson made 11 of 13 shots in 28 minutes. Often injured during his first six seasons since being drafted first overall out of Duke in 2019, Williamson has played in 52 games in his seventh NBA campaign, averaging 21.5 points.
New Orleans led for most of the game and by as many as 19 points.
P.J. Washington scored 18 for the Mavericks, who played without Klay Thompson (rest), Daniel Gafford (illness) and Caleb Martin (sore right foot). Max Christie had 12 points on four 3-pointers.
New Orleans played without Dejounte Murray (illness), and coach James Borrego adjusted to the starting point guard's absence by playing Murphy and Herb Jones in the backcourt and giving second-year center Yves Missi his ninth start of the season. Meanwhile, veteran guard Jordan Poole came off the bench for his first playing time in eight games.
Missi grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked five shots. Pelicans reserve Karlo Matkovic had 13 points and 10 rebounds.
Mavericks: Host the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night.
Pelicans: Host the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night in the first of a two-game set between those teams on consecutive nights.
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Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd stands during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans in New Orleans, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ella Hall)
New Orleans Pelicans forward Trey Murphy III celebrates after a play during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks in New Orleans, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ella Hall)
Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg celebrates after a play during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans in New Orleans, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ella Hall)
New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson dunks during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks in New Orleans, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ella Hall)
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 16, 2026--
Kioxia Corporation today announced the development of its Super High IOPS SSD, a new type of SSD enabling the GPU to directly access high-speed flash memory as an expansion to High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) in AI systems. The new Super High IOPS SSD, the KIOXIA GP Series, is purpose-built to meet the growing performance demands of AI and high-performance computing, providing larger GPU-accessible memory capacity for faster data access to AI workloads. Evaluation samples of KIOXIA GP Series will be available to select customers by the end of 2026.
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The NVIDIA Storage-Next initiative addresses the anticipated shift from compute-intensive to data-intensive workloads and the expanded need for GPU-accessible memory space, currently limited by HBM size. Expanding the GPU’s usable memory space allows access to larger data sets and improves GPU utilization by moving more data closer to compute resources.
The NVIDIA Storage-Next initiative calls on SSD vendors to design drives optimized for GPU-initiated AI workloads. The initiative effectively expands HBM capacity by enabling GPUs to access flash-based memory. Kioxia is supporting NVIDIA’s initiative with the KIOXIA GP Series SSDs, which utilize low-latency, high-performance KIOXIA XL-FLASH™ Storage Class Memory, and is uniquely positioned for this architecture, delivering higher IOPS, finer-grained data access (512 bytes), and lower power consumption per IO, compared with Kioxia conventional TLC SSDs.
“Kioxia fully supports the NVIDIA Storage-Next initiative and will deliver purpose-built SSDs to effectively address the need for GPU-accessible memory,” said Makoto Hamada, Senior Director of the SSD Division, Kioxia Corporation. “This collaboration is instrumental in shaping the future of AI storage architecture.”
Kioxia reaffirms its commitment to driving technological advancements in AI and high-performance computing through ongoing innovation and strategic collaborations. The KIOXIA GP Series SSD family is designed to address the evolving needs of AI workloads.
Additionally, AI models are rapidly scaling toward trillions of parameters while context windows expand to millions of tokens, driving an unprecedented growth in KV (Key Value) cache requirements. Architectures such as NVIDIA’s Context Memory Storage (CMX) recognize the need to extend the memory hierarchy beyond GPU memory using high-performance storage. The KIOXIA CM9 Series PCIe ® 5.0 E3.S SSD, offering 25.6 TB TLC capacity with 3 DWPD endurance, provide the performance, capacity, and endurance needed to support these large-scale inference environments. KIOXIA believes this class of storage will play a critical role in scaling efficient, cost-optimized AI inference infrastructure. Samples will begin shipping in Q3 2026.
KIOXIA will be demonstrating the Super High IOPS SSD emulator and other technology innovations at NVIDIA GTC, booth 3522.
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Other company names, product names, and service names may be trademarks of third-party companies.
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.
About Kioxia
Kioxia is a world leader in memory solutions, dedicated to the development, production and sale of flash memory and solid-state drives (SSDs). In April 2017, its predecessor Toshiba Memory was spun off from Toshiba Corporation, the company that invented NAND flash memory in 1987. Kioxia is committed to uplifting the world with “memory” by offering products, services and systems that create choice for customers and memory-based value for society. Kioxia's innovative 3D flash memory technology, BiCS FLASH™, is shaping the future of storage in high-density applications, including advanced smartphones, PCs, automotive systems, data centers and generative AI systems.
Information in this document, including product prices and specifications, content of services and contact information, is correct on the date of the announcement but is subject to change without prior notice.
Super High IOPS SSD, KIOXIA GP Series
