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Kioxia reportedly cancels October IPO plans — blames unfavorable market trends

Amid market uncertainties, Kioxia calls off the IPO set for October.

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NAND Flash Maker Kioxia files for IPO at expected $10.3 billion valuation

NAND Flash Maker Kioxia files for IPO at expected $10.3 billion valuation

Bain Capital hopes to raise $500 million from Kioxia's IPO, retain control over NAND flash maker.

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DapuStor and Memblaze Target Global Expansion with State-of-the-Art Enterprise SSDs

DapuStor and Memblaze Target Global Expansion with State-of-the-Art Enterprise SSDs

The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia,…

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Kioxia Demonstrates Optical Interface SSDs for Data Centers

A few years back, the Japanese government's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO ) allocated funding for the development of green datacenter technologies. With the aim to obtain up to 40% savings in overall power consumption, several Japanese companies have been developing an optical interface for their enterprise…

Kioxia Demonstrates RAID Offload Scheme for NVMe Drives

At FMS 2024, Kioxia had a proof-of-concept demonstration of their proposed a new RAID offload methodology for enterprise SSDs. The impetus for this is quite clear: as SSDs get faster in each generation, RAID arrays have a major problem of maintaining (and scaling up) performance. Even in cases where the…

Kioxia Details BiCS 8 NAND at FMS 2024: 218 Layers With Superior Scaling

Kioxia's booth at FMS 2024 was a busy one with multiple technology demonstrations keeping visitors occupied. A walk-through of the BiCS 8 manufacturing process was the first to grab my attention. Kioxia and Western Digital announced the sampling of BiCS 8 in March 2023. We had touched briefly upon its…

Kioxia showcases SSDs that communicate at the speed of light — optical connection enables storage as far as 40 meters or more from CPU

Kioxia introduced an optical interface for SSDs, which allows storage placement as far as 40 meters away from the host for better power efficiency, cooling, and data center layout planning.

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Microchip Demonstrates Flashtec 5016 Enterprise SSD Controller

Microchip Demonstrates Flashtec 5016 Enterprise SSD Controller

Microchip recently announced the availability of their second PCIe Gen 5 enterprise SSD controller - the Flashtec 5016. Like the 4016, this is also a 16-channel controller, but there are some key updates: PCIe 5.0 lane organization: Operation in x4 or dual independent x2 / x2 mode in the 5016,…

Solidigm D7-PS1010 and D7-PS1030: PCIe 5.0 and 176L TLC Datacenter SSD Performance Play

Solidigm D7-PS1010 and D7-PS1030: PCIe 5.0 and 176L TLC Datacenter SSD Performance Play

Solidigm's datacenter SSD lineup includes models targeting different performance, endurance, and cost tradeoffs. Last year, the company had introduced the D5-P5336 QLC drive as a low-cost high-capacity drive for read-heavy workloads, while also preparing the SLC-based D7-P5810 for extremely write-intensive workloads requiring high endurance. The D7-P5520 / D7-P5620 Gen 4…

This is the chip that could feature in the world's largest SSD — Kioxia launches 2Tb NAND chip and key partner Pure Storage may use it in its 150TB SSD DirectFlash modules

This is the chip that could feature in the world's largest SSD — Kioxia launches 2Tb NAND chip and key partner Pure Storage may use it in its 150TB SSD DirectFlash modules

Kioxia's 2Tb QLC chips, utilizing eighth-generation BiCS FLASH technology, could be used in Pure Storage's 150TB SSD.

Samsung Joins The 60 TB SSD Club, Looking Forward To 120 TB Drives

Samsung Joins The 60 TB SSD Club, Looking Forward To 120 TB Drives

Multiple companies offer high-capacity SSDs, but until recently, only one company offered high-performance 60 TB-class drives with a PCIe interface: Solidigm. As our colleagues from Blocks & Files discovered, Samsung quietly rolled out its BM1743 61.44 TB solid-state drive in mid-June and now envisions 120 TB-class SSDs based on the…

Kioxia's High-Performance 3D QLC NAND Enables High-End High-Capacity SSDs

Kioxia's High-Performance 3D QLC NAND Enables High-End High-Capacity SSDs

This week, Kioxia introduced its new 3D QLC NAND devices aimed at high-performance, high-capacity drives that could redefine what we typically expect from QLC-based SSDs. The components are 1 Tb and 2 Tb 3D QLC NAND ICs with a 3600 MT/s interface speed that could enable M.2-2230 SSDs with a…

16TB M.2 SSDs will soon grace the market — Kioxia unveils 2Tb 3D QLC NAND to build bigger SSDs

16TB M.2 SSDs will soon grace the market — Kioxia unveils 2Tb 3D QLC NAND to build bigger SSDs

Kioxia's latest 2Tb 3D QLC NAND enables the company and its partners to build ultra-fast SSDs with extremely high capacities in miniature form factors.

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SSD storage is set to use 1,000 layer memory chips by 2027, potentially offering 20 TB NVMe drives for under $300

SSD storage is set to use 1,000 layer memory chips by 2027, potentially offering 20 TB NVMe drives for under $300

Given the pace in NAND flash development, that's certainly not impossible, even the price.

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Kioxia ends production cutting strategy — 3D NAND prices could stabilize or decline

Kioxia puts an end to its 3D NAND production cuts that were initiated in October, 2022.

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WD unveils world's highest-capacity flash memory chip — 2Tb 3D QLC flash chips open the door to bigger and cheaper SSDs

High-capacity SSDs might get cheaper as Western Digital and Kioxia are prepping BiCS8 2Tb 3D QLC NAND devices.

SSD rival to Samsung reveals road to petabyte SSDs at major engineering conference — Kioxia wants 1000-layer NAND in 3 years and discusses HeLC, molybdenum, 100Gb/mm2 densities

Kioxia explains how petabyte SSDs could become a reality in the near future, and the technologies required.

World Exclusive: We tested the first 2TB microSD card and no, it's not a fake — AGI's card defies laws of physics with record-breaking storage capacity on pinkie-size surface area

In a world exclusive, we tested AGI's Supreme Pro TF138, the first ever commercial 2TB microSD card.

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Hands on: AGI Supreme Pro TF138 2TB microSD

The AGI Supreme Pro TF138 takes microSD capacity to a new level.

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Kioxia aims to mass produce 1000-layer 3D NAND by 2031 — quadruple the current number of layers

Kioxia expects 1,000-layer 3D NAND memory in six or seven years using innovative production methods.

Western Digital Launches PC SN5000S SSD: Low-Cost Meets High Performance

Western Digital has introduced its new series of SSDs aimed at mainstream PCs, which combine high performance and low cost. The Western Digital PC SN5000S family of DRAM-less drives uses the company's 3D QLC NAND memory and an in-house-developed platform, so the SSDs promise to be relatively inexpensive. Meanwhile, their…

Samsung's biggest memory rivals are plotting a tie-up with Kafkaesque implications — SK Hynix and Kioxia could build lucrative HBM chips for Nvidia, AMD and others

SK Hynix is reportedly in talks with Kioxia to manufacture HBM chips at its facilities in Japan

Kioxia aims to sweet talk SK Hynix into letting the Western Digital merger go ahead, with a new manufacturing deal as the carrot this time around

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Kioxia reports 4 million Q3 loss amidst challenging market

Kioxia, a leading chipmaker in Japan, has reported a Q3 loss of 4 million. The results showcase the challenges faced by the company in the highly compet...

Exclusive: First 2TB MicroSD card is now on sale and no, it is not expensive at all — Taiwanese company makes my dream of building a petabyte-in-a-shoebox project become true

In a surprising twist, AGI becomes first manufacturer to launch a 2TB microSD card.

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