KUALA LUMPUR, Kioxia Corporation is showcasing a prototype of broadband solid state drive (SSD) with an optical interface for next-generation data centres at the 'FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage' conference in Santa Clara, California from Aug 6 to 8. By replacing the electrical wiring interface with optical, this SSD technology significantly increases the physical distance between the compute and storage devices, slims down wiring, while maintaining energy efficiency and high signal quality. According to Kioxia in a statement, it also brings high flexibility to data centre system design and applications. By adopting an optical interface, it becomes possible to aggregate individual components that make up systems, such as SSDs and Central Processing Units (CPUs), and seamlessly interconnect them. This furthers the evolution of a "disaggregated computing system" that can efficiently utilise resources according to a specific workload. This accomplishment is the result of the Japanese "Next Generation Green Data Center Technology Development" project, JPNP21029, subsidised by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, under the "Green Innovation Fund Project: Construction of Next Generation Digital Infrastructure". In this grant project, next generation technologies are being developed with the goal of achieving more than 40 per cent energy savings compared to current data centres. As a part of this project, Kioxia, a world leader in memory solutions, is developing broadband SSDs with optical interface for data storage in next-generation green data centres. Source: BERNAMA News Agency