Kioxia has announced the availability of preview samples of its Automotive Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Ver. 3.1 designed for automotive electronics. Modules are planned to be released in 64, 128, 256 and 512 GB capacities. They use proprietary flash memory BiCS FLASH. Taking into account the area of application, drives...
Kioxia announced the start of construction of a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility (Fab2) at its Kitakami plant in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. The new capacities will expand the production of BiCS FLASH 3D Flash memory. The construction of the facility is scheduled to begin in April 2022, and it should be...
Kioxia has announced the availability of 2nd Generation PCIe 5.0 Ready SSDs for enterprise customers and data centers. With twice the throughput per lane of PCIe 4.0-enabled SSDs (32 GT/s vs. 16 GT/s), the CD8 series SSDs are optimized for hyperscale data center and enterprise server workloads, according to the...
Kioxia has announced that the PM7 series enterprise SSDs are available for customer evaluation. Designed for enterprise applications and use cases, including supercomputing, artificial intelligence, caching, and financial trading and analysis, these drives deliver enhanced performance, reliability, and security for enterprise servers and storage systems. With a focus on security,...
Kioxia announced the availability of samples of the industry’s first embedded UFS flash drives that comply with the MIPI M-PHY v5.0 specification. They use proprietary flash memory BiCS FLASH. Drives designed for use in mobile devices will be available in 128, 256 and 512 GB. The mentioned MIPI M-PHY 5.0...
Kioxia, a specialist in flash memory and storage solutions, announced the beginning of the supply of modules that comply with the UFS 3.1 specification, which use proprietary QLC 3D NAND memory. QLC technology allows you to get the maximum storage density, which is very important in mobile devices, such as...
Kioxia recently announced the Exceria Plus external solid state drive, clarifying specific release dates vary by region. The drive is housed in a compact enclosure with rounded corners. It is compatible with PCs, smartphones, tablets and game consoles. The drive uses proprietary flash memory BiCS FLASH 3D. Available in 500GB,...
Kioxia introduced the BG5 series solid state drives. These PCIe 4.0 x 4 SSDs, according to Kioxia, are “designed to provide the best balance of performance, cost, and power consumption.” They use the fifth generation 3D BiCS FLASH from Kioxia. The BG5 Series is attractive for use in a wide...
Yesterday, Kioxia released its next quarter report. She ended the second quarter of the 2021 fiscal year on September 30. The flash memory manufacturer’s revenue for the period was 400.5 billion yen, up 21.5% quarter-on-quarter. During the quarter, the company generated operating income of 78.0 billion yen, up 122.2% from...
Kioxia has announced the launch of its EM6 series solid state drives for Ethernet Bunch of Flash (EBOF) storage systems. To obtain a high data transfer rate, these drives use the NVMe-oF (NVMe over Fabric) protocol, which differs from NVMe in that the transport layer in it is not PCIe,...
Keeping in mind the growing demands of enterprise infrastructures, Kioxia has announced that it is ready to start mass production of its XD6 series solid state drives. This is an EDSFF E1.S SSD with a thickness of 9.5 mm. Introduced in late 2020, they are the first EDSFF E1.S SSDs...
Kioxia has announced the release of the CD7 E3.S. According to the manufacturer, these are the industry’s first Enterprise and Data Center (EDSFF) E3.S SSDs equipped with a PCIe 5.0 interface. Engineering prototypes that served as the basis for production products were presented by Kioxia at last year’s Flash Memory...
Kioxia has demonstrated the first performance benchmarks of next-generation solid state drives that deliver double the bandwidth of existing models. The increase is provided by the transition from PCIe Gen 4.0 to PCIe Gen 5.0. The PCIe Gen 5.0 SSD prototype delivers sequential read speeds of up to 14,000 MB...
Kioxia Europe GmbH has issued a press release for the TransMemory U366 series of USB drives. These flash drives are available in 16, 32, 64 and 128 GB sizes. They are equipped with USB 3.2 Gen 1 interfaces and are compatible with macOS v10.12-v11.0, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. The...
Targeting corporate customers, Kioxia introduced the FL6 solid state drives. These PCIe 4.0 SSDs, supporting NVMe 1.4 and NVMe-oF protocols, use Kioxia’s proprietary XL-Flash. They are said to be “bridging the speed gap between DRAM and TLC SSDs.” Based on BiCS Flash SLC 3D Flash technology, XL-Flash offers low latency...
The American company Western Digital is in preliminary negotiations on a possible merger with its partner, the Japanese manufacturer of memory chips Kioxia Holdings. This was reported by Reuters, citing “a person familiar with the matter.” The deal is worth $ 20 billion. The parties are said to have come...
