Kioxia delivers samples of new-generation flash memory chips to AI data centers

Glonghui July 3 — According to market sources, Kioxia has begun delivering samples of its next-generation flash memory chips to AI data center operators, aiming to compete for market share in this high-profit business area. The Tokyo-based chipmaker’s latest high-density 3D flash memory chips are designed to better meet the needs of AI data centers for higher storage density, faster data transfer rates, and improved energy efficiency. In a statement released Friday, the company said its latest products will be used in solid-state drives for data centers and manufactured at a new facility at its Kitakami plant in Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan. The chip features a 332-layer stacked architecture, allowing more data to be stored on a single silicon wafer. The new plant facility will help Kioxia increase its production capacity to meet the rapidly growing data storage demands of artificial intelligence service providers. The company stated that it will simultaneously expand the production of low-cost ninth-generation scalable bit-cost chips as well as its tenth-generation products.