28 news items tagged Kioxia
Kioxia breaks ground for new 3D NAND wafer fab
Friday 26 February 2021Kioxia held a groundbreaking ceremony for a semiconductor fabrication facility, dubbed Fab 7, at its factory site in Yokkaichi, Japan on February 24. The facility will be dedicated...
Kioxia, Western Digital announce 6th-gen 3D flash memory
Friday 19 February 2021Kioxia and Western Digital jointly announced they have developed their sixth-generation, 162-layer 3D flash memory technology.
Top-5 wafer capacity leaders raise share of global capacity to 54%, says IC Insights
Wednesday 17 February 2021The top-5 wafer capacity leaders saw their combined installed capacity represent 54% of total global wafer capacity in December 2020, according to IC Insights. In 2009, the top-10...
Adoption of QLC SSD among PCs to grow rapidly in 2022
Monday 28 December 2020With major chipmakers ramping up their quad-level cell (QLC) NAND flash output, SSDs utilizing the technology storing four bits per cell will start penetrating into the notebook and...
SSD supply constrained by chip shortages
Monday 21 December 2020The market for NAND flash memory remains oversupplied, but shortages of flash device controllers and passive components have constrained the supply of SSD and other related peripherals,...
Lingering NAND price falls may affect Intel-Sk Hynix deal, say sources
Monday 2 November 2020NAND flash price falls have been accelerating in the second half of the year along with datacenter operators and server clients entering inventory adjustments, and may persist into...
Kioxia to build new fab for 3D flash manufacturing
Thursday 29 October 2020Kioxia has announced it will begin to construct a fabrication facility, dubbed Fab 7, at its factory site in Yokkaichi, Japan to expand production of its proprietary 3D flash memory...
Kioxia postpones IPO
Tuesday 29 September 2020Kioxia has decided to postpone its initial public offering (IPO) due to market volatility. The deferral of the IPO may affect the flash vendor's capacity expansion project, according...
Top-10 semiconductor suppliers continue to grow in 2Q20, says Omdia
Wednesday 23 September 2020Building on bullish growth in first-quarter 2020 in weak market conditions, the world's top-10 semiconductor suppliers managed to continue their revenue growth at a rate of 2.4% in...
Memory chipmakers hold nearly 4 months of inventories
Friday 4 September 2020Samsung Electronics and some others have held nearly four months of DRAM and NAND flash inventories on average, due to a slowdown in orders for datacenter applications and overall...
Kioxia SSD gain compatibility approval with Broadcom tri-mode adapters
Wednesday 22 July 2020Kioxia has announced that its lineup of NVMe, SAS and SATA SSDs have been successfully tested for compatibility and interoperability with Broadcom's 9400 series of host bus adapters...
Demand for QLC NAND memory set to boom
Tuesday 14 July 2020The adoption of QLC (4bits/cell) NAND memory is set to grow rapidly starting the second half of 2020, thanks to rising demand for data-intensive applications demanding large-capacity,...
Kioxia demos EDSFF SSD form factor
Friday 3 July 2020Delivering a glimpse into the future of data center architectures, Kioxia America has demonstrated an E3.S full-function development vehicle in conjunction with a leading server OEM...
Kioxia completes acquisition of Lite-On SSD unit
Wednesday 1 July 2020Kioxia has completed its takeover of Lite-On Technology's SSD business - Solid State Storage Technology - and its affiliated companies today (July 1), according to the Japan-based...
Kioxia to complete acquisition of Lite-On SSD biz in July
Wednesday 24 June 2020Kioxia (renamed from Toshiba Memory) is expected to complete its takeover of Lite-On Technology's SSD business in early July, according to industry sources.
Top-10 semiconductor suppliers defy weak market conditions in 1Q20
Wednesday 24 June 2020Defying a decline in market revenue, the world's top-10 semiconductor suppliers managed to generate revenue growth of 2.1% in the first quarter of 2020, as they benefitted from a...
Kioxia launches 24G SAS SSD for servers, storage
Wednesday 17 June 2020Kioxia America has launched what it claims is the industry's first 24G SAS SSDs for server and storage applications.
YMTC may unveil own-brand SSDs in 3Q20
Friday 5 June 2020China-based Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) reportedly will in third-quarter 2020 launch its own-brand SSDs adopting in-house-developed 64-layer 3D NAND flash, with target outlets...
Memory backend specialists see orders lose momentum
Friday 22 May 2020Memory backend specialists have seen customer orders slow down recently, with the orders likely to remain stagnant till June as their clients, mainly makers of memory modules, are...
Intel reclaims top position in semiconductors
Thursday 16 April 2020Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled US$419.1 billion in 2019, down 12% from 2018, according to final results by Gartner. Intel regained the top position in the market as the downturn...
Pandemic delays tansfer of Lite-On Tech SSD business unit to Kioxia
Wednesday 1 April 2020EMS provider Lite-On Technology has disclosed it originally planned to transfer its SSD business unit to Kioxia Holdings (renamed from Toshiba Memory) on April 1, 2020, but the Japanese...
Kioxia strives to return to profitability
Monday 2 March 2020Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) is reportedly looking to go public by October 2020, and therefore is striving to swing back to profit, according to industry sources.
Kioxia to deliver PCIe 4.0 SSDs
Thursday 27 February 2020Kioxia has announced that its lineup of PCIe 4.0 NVMe enterprise and data center solid state drives (SSDs) are now shipping to customers.
Top-5 semiconductor firms hold 53% of global wafer capacity
Thursday 13 February 2020The world's top-five wafer capacity leaders each had capacity of more than 1,000,000 wafer starts per month, with their combined capacity representing 53% of the world's total wafer...
Kioxia eyeing bigger presence in consumer SSD market
Monday 20 January 2020Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) is looking to grow its presence in the market for consumer SSDs through launching a new brand, according to industry sources.
- Japan's Kioxia gets US go-ahead to supply server chips to Huawei (Dec 4) - Nikkei Asian Review
- Sony, Kioxia seek US approval to supply chips to China's Huawei (Oct 5) - Kyodo News
- Japan's Sony and Kioxia seeking U.S. approval to supply to Huawei - Nikkei (Oct 4) - Reuters
- Japanese chipmaker Kioxia postpones $3.2 billion IPO plan amid U.S.-China tensions (Sep 28) - Reuters
- Kioxia says U.S. restrictions on Huawei could cause memory chip oversupply, price downturn (Sep 17) - Reuters