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Kioxia Demonstrates Optical Interface SSDs for Data Centers

by Ganesh T S on August 13, 2024 12:00 PM EST - Posted in - Storage - SSDs - Enterprise SSDs - Kioxia - Silicon Photonics - FMS 2024 A few years back, the Japanese government's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO ) allocated funding for the development of green datacenter technologies. With the aim to obtain up to 40% savings in overall power consumption, several Japanese companies have been developing an optical interface for their enterprise SSDs.

With the aim to obtain up to 40% savings in overall power consumption, several Japanese companies have been developing an optical interface for their enterprise SSDs. An optical interface allows data transfer over long distances (it was 40m in the demo, but Kioxia promises lengths of up to 100m for the cable in the future). This allows the storage to be kept in a separate room with minimal cooling requirements compared to the rack with the CPUs and GPUs.

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