KIOXIA announces new XG10 Series PCIe Gen5 SSDs for OEMs and consumers

One of the biggest stories for the consumer-facing PC market, that is, the non-data center and AI-only space, was Micron announcing that it would no longer produce consumer SSD and RAM products under its long-standing Crucial brand. It was a surprising move, but on the plus side, it looks like KIOXIA, the inventors of flash memory, is stepping in to fill that void with a new range of SSD offerings built for OEMs and the consumer PC market.

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In addition to the affordable EG7 and BG8 Series of SSDs that cover PCIe Gen4 and Gen5 interfaces and leverage the company's groundbreaking BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory with its CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology, KIOXIA is also introducing the new XG10 Series of SSDs for PC OEMs, targeting high-performance users.

With its PCIe 5.0 interface delivering sequential read speeds of up to 14,000 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 12,000 MB/s, the XG10 Series is built for content creation workloads such as editing, immersive next-gen cinematic gaming, and local AI training and inference. Compared to the previous generation's XG8 Series, that's double the performance while also delivering improvements of 122% in random read and 158% in random write.

The new KIOXIA XG10 Series also features Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) support for robust data protection. Shipping in the popular M.2 Type 2280 form factor, KIOXIA XG10 Series SSDs will be available in 512GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities when they begin shipping in the second quarter of 2026. The KIOXIA XG10 Series will also be on display at the upcoming Dell Technologies World event, taking place from May 18 to 21 in Las Vegas.

"PCIe 5.0 represents a major step forward for client storage, particularly in the performance segment," said Maulik Sompura, senior staff director, product management, SSD business unit at KIOXIA America, Inc. "With the KIOXIA XG10 Series, we are delivering significantly enhanced performance that improves the overall client storage experience for content creators, gamers, and professionals working with increasingly demanding workloads."