According to Bloomberg, Kioxia expects NAND storage demand to grow by about 20% annually, fueled by rising AI data center demand. To address this growth, the company announced the start of operations at Fab2 (K2) in the Kitakami Plant, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As its press release highlights, Fab2�...

As major CSPs ramp up AI infrastructure and shift toward high-performance inference, demand for high-capacity storage keeps climbing—putting next-gen NAND development in the spotlight. Yet, according to ZDNet, Samsung Electronics is struggling to commercialize its ninth-generation (V9) high-capaci...

According to South Korean outlet Yonhap Infomax, shares of Japan’s NAND flash producer Kioxia have been rising sharply amid a supply shortage in the NAND market. The report notes that SK hynix — which invested KRW 3.9 trillion in Kioxia in 2018 — is now realizing significant valuation gains af...

While HBM rides the AI boom with DRAM giants Samsung and SK hynix accelerating the HBM4 rollout, NAND is set to follow suit. According to Nikkei, Japan’s Kioxia, in partnership with NVIDIA, plans to commercialize SSDs by 2027 with nearly 100x faster read speeds than current models. The report h...

According to a report from MoneyDJ, citing Nikkei, Japanese NAND flash memory giant Kioxia announced its mid- to long-term business plan on June 5, aiming to double its production capacity by fiscal 2029 compared to fiscal 2024 by expanding production lines at its two main facilities in Japan—the ...