Kioxia Showcases Flash Storage Innovations for the AI Era at FMS 2026

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 4, 2026--

Kioxia group, a world leader in memory solutions, will demonstrate how its flash memory and SSD technologies, including the KIOXIA GP1 Series PCIe® 6.0 NVMe™ Super High IOPS SSDs, optimized for GPU direct access, are enabling the next generation of AI infrastructure at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage, taking place August 4–6 in Santa Clara, California. Through a keynote presentation, executive panel discussions, technical sessions, and technology demonstrations, Kioxia will showcase the innovations driving the performance, scalability, and efficiency required for next-generation AI infrastructure.

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Featured at FMS 2026 are the recently announced KIOXIA CM10 Series PCIe ® 6.0 enterprise SSDs and KIOXIA NX1 Series SSDs, both of which support direct liquid cooling. Designed for AI and modern data center environments, KIOXIA CM10 Series SSDs are the first enterprise drives built with BiCS FLASH™ generation 10 flash memory, and the KIOXIA NX1 Series represents a new generation of E1.S PCIe ® 5.0 NVMe™ data center SSDs.

At FMS 2026, Kioxia will give a keynote presentation and various sessions covering a range of topics.

Keynote Presentation:
"Redefining Data Center Storage for the AI Era with Flash Memory and SSDs"
Monday, August 4 at 11:10 am
Venue: Mission City Ballroom, Santa Clara Convention Center, First Floor
Speakers: Neville Ichhaporia, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the SSD Business Unit for KIOXIA America, Inc., and Katsuki Matsudera, General Manager of the Memory Technical Marketing Managing Department for Kioxia Corporation.

NVIDIA Special Session:
"Balancing Memory and Storage to Operate AI Factories and Agents at Scale"
Thursday, August 6 at 11:00 am
Venue: Mission City Ballroom, Santa Clara Convention Center, First Floor
Speaker: Rory Bolt, Senior Fellow and Principal Architect of the SSD Business Unit for KIOXIA America Inc.

Panel Discussion:
"Storage in Accelerator-Centric Architectures"
Wednesday, August 6 at 9:45 am
Venue: Ballroom G, Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, Lobby Floor
Speaker: Ilya Cherkasov, Principal Engineer, Enterprise Division, SSD for KIOXIA America, Inc.

KIOXIA Booth Exhibition
Product and technology demonstrations will be given on the show floor in the iconic 2-level Kioxia booth #307 - featuring ten separate exhibit locations – and include:

Related Links:
FMS 2026 Official Site
Storage Solutions Empowering AI

Notes:
Definition of capacity: Kioxia Corporation defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 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.

NVMe is a registered or unregistered mark of NVM Express, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
PCIe is a registered trademark of PCI-SIG.CXL and Compute Express Link are trademarks of the Compute Express Link Consortium, Inc.
Universal Flash Storage (UFS) is a product category for a class of embedded memory products built to the JEDEC UFS standard specification. Due to its serial interface, UFS supports full duplexing, which enables both concurrent reading and writing between the host processor and UFS device.
Other company names, product names and service names may be trademarks of third-party companies.

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.

Kioxia Showcases Flash Storage Innovations for the AI Era at FMS 2026

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota reported Tuesday a nearly doubling of profit for the fiscal first quarter as solid demand in the U.S. and India combined with a favorable exchange rate to boost results.

The Japanese automaker, which makes the Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury models, recorded a 1.48 trillion yen ($9.4 billion) net profit in the April-June period, up from 841 billion yen the same quarter the previous year.

Quarterly sales rose 10% year on year to 13.5 trillion yen ($85 billion).

A cheap yen raises the value of overseas earnings for Japan’s giant exporters like Toyota Motor Corp. The U.S. dollar was trading at about 145 yen during the fiscal first quarter in 2025, but at about 160 yen for the same period this year.

The dollar is now trading at about 158 yen because of a joint U.S.-Japan market intervention, which came last week, or in the fiscal second quarter.

The favorable currency effect added 345 billion yen ($2.2 billion) to Toyota’s quarterly operating profit in the April-June period.

The automaker is figuring the yen at 160 to the dollar for the full fiscal year.

Chief Officer Takanori Azuma said Toyota sold fewer vehicles globally for the quarter just ended at 2.39 million, compared with 2.41 million vehicles a year ago.

But the automaker expects to sell more vehicles for the full fiscal year at 9.7 million vehicles, compared with 9.595 million the previous fiscal year.

Azuma said demand remains strong for Toyota hybrids in various global markets, including the U.S., where the Camry mid-size sedan and RAV4 compact sport utility vehicle are selling briskly.

Toyota plans to boost hybrid and hybrid battery production through 2030, said Azuma, adding that it will bring down costs. Toyota’s electric vehicle sales are also going strong, he said.

Among the popular models in India were the Urban Cruiser and Innova Hycross, while the Yaris remained a strong seller in Thailand and Europe.

The recent political instability in the Middle East has weighed on Japanese automakers, which rely heavily on the now effectively closed Strait of Hormuz for shipping. Toyota said it was working on tackling such challenges, including finding alternative routes.

Another potential negative impact was the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Kumamoto in southwestern Japan, which hit July 28.

Toyota has production facilities there, with production now halted at its Tahara plant for five days through Friday. That will be followed by a summer break, unrelated to the disaster, and production will be down through the end of the month.

Toyota is projecting a 3.25 trillion yen ($20.6 billion) profit for the full fiscal year through March 2027, not as good as the 3.85 trillion yen ($24 billion) profit racked up the previous fiscal year.

Annual sales are forecast at 54 trillion yen ($342 billion), better than the 50.7 trillion yen for the previous fiscal year that ended in March.

Toyota shares fell nearly 2% in Tokyo trading after earnings results were announced.

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FILE -Toyota dealership, April 30, 2026, in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)