Kioxia rose 2.97% intraday on Aug. 4, according to Bitget market data, while the Nikkei 225 fell 0.53%. The move came as the company formally announced KIOXIA GP1, its first GP-series solid-state drive designed to support direct GPU access to high-speed flash storage. Kioxia said the product delivers 100M IOPS in random read performance. The company described the GP1 series as a product aimed at emerging AI storage architectures that bring high-speed flash media into the VRAM system. According to Kioxia, that setup allows AI systems to access larger datasets at a cost far below adding more HBM, while also improving GPU utilization.