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2026
Kioxia reports its 2027 chip capacity is effectively sold out
At its 2027 fiscal-year second-quarter earnings call, Kioxia Holdings executive vice president Yoshihiko Kawamura said the company’s 2027 chip capacity allocations were effectively fully assigned and more than half of its 2028 allocations were already locked in by customers.
2026
Kioxia launches LD4 series E1.L QLC SSD for hyperscale data centers
Kioxia Corporation announced the launch of its first E1.L form factor SSD built with BiCS FLASH 8th-generation QLC flash memory, the KIOXIA LD4 series, designed for high-density 1U servers and read-intensive storage in hyperscale data centers. Samples are currently being provided to select customers, and the drives will be exhibited at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, California from October 12-15, 2026.
2026
Kioxia launches CM9-DLC 32TB PCIe 5.0 liquid-cooled enterprise SSD in the US
Kioxia officially launched the CM9-DLC enterprise SSD in the United States on October 12, 2026. The drive uses the EDSFF form factor, supports PCIe 5.0, NVMe 2.0 and NVMe-MI 1.2c, natively supports cold-plate liquid cooling, offers up to 32TB capacity in 1DWPD and 3DWPD endurance grades, and delivers sequential read/write speeds of 14.8 GB/s and 11 GB/s.
2026
Applied Materials launches EPIC Center in Sunnyvale, California with $5 billion initial investment
Applied Materials launched its Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialisation (EPIC) Center in Sunnyvale, California with an initial $5 billion capital investment. The 600,000-square-foot facility, featuring nearly four acres of advanced cleanroom space, opens with a founding roster of semiconductor majors including TSMC, Intel, SK Hynix, Micron and Samsung Electronics, alongside innovation partners Broadcom, Advantest, SCREEN, KIOXIA and Besi, and is designed to bring together chipmakers, systems companies, equipment vendors and university researchers to accelerate semiconductor process technology and equipment R&D.
2026
Toshiba continues selling Kioxia shares, stake falls below 12%
Toshiba stated in a change report filed with the Kanto Local Finance Bureau on October 8 that its stake in Kioxia fell from 12.84% (as of September 7) to 11.80% as of October 1, after it sold Kioxia shares through market transactions in eight batches between September 8 and October 1.
2026
Kioxia launches CM10 series enterprise SSD with PCIe 6.0
At FMS 2026, Kioxia announced the CM10 series enterprise SSD, its first enterprise SSD using 10th-generation BiCS FLASH TLC and its first PCIe 6.0 product, supporting NVIDIA CMX architecture and direct cold-plate liquid cooling for AI inference and context caching.
2026
Kioxia and SanDisk launch ninth-generation 2Tb QLC 3D flash memory
Kioxia and SanDisk jointly announced a ninth-generation high-performance 2Tb QLC 3D flash memory aimed at AI infrastructure and data-intensive applications, featuring a 6-plane architecture and a NAND interface speed of 4.8Gb/s, a 33% improvement over the eighth generation.
2026
Toshiba continues selling Kioxia shares, stake falls to 14.06%
Toshiba continued selling its Kioxia shares through market transactions, with its stake falling from 15.1% to 14.06% as of August 3, 2026, according to a change report filed with the Kanto Local Finance Bureau.
2022
Contamination disrupts Kioxia and Western Digital flash production
A reported materials contamination incident at Kioxia flash factories damaged flash memory capacity. Kioxia and Western Digital said they were working to restore normal operations at the Yokohama and Kitakami factories, without providing a restoration date.
2021
KIOXIA announces production availability of EM6 Series SSDs
KIOXIA America announced production availability of its EM6 Series enterprise NVMe-oF solid-state drives for Ethernet Bunch of Flash systems. The source provides no publication date.
2021
Kioxia launches EXCERIA PLUS portable SSD series
Kioxia Electronics (China) announced that it released the EXCERIA PLUS portable SSD series on November 9, with capacities of 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB.
2021
KIOXIA announces sampling of 1TB UFS 3.1 device
KIOXIA Europe GmbH announced sampling of its 1TB Universal Flash Storage Ver. 3.1 embedded flash memory device, housed in a 1.1mm-high package.
2020
Kioxia announces planned Tokyo IPO
Kioxia announced that it would list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on October 6 in an initial public offering worth up to $3.6 billion.
2020
Kioxia launches PM6 SAS SSD
Kioxia launched the PM6 solid-state drive, described as the first SSD to use a 24Gbps SAS interface, with capacity up to 30.72TB.
2020
Kioxia and Western Digital introduce UFS 3.1 memory products
Kioxia and Western Digital introduced UFS 3.1-compatible memory products for smartphones. The report says Kioxia would soon deliver samples to manufacturers and Western Digital's product was expected to reach commercial availability the following month.
2020
Western Digital announces BiCS5 flash technology
Western Digital announced BiCS5, a next-generation flash-memory technology jointly developed with Kioxia. The technology has 112-layer stacking and TLC and QLC types; the article says initial mass production would begin with 512Gb TLC, with 1.33Tb QLC commercialization expected in the second half of 2020.
2020
Kioxia announces fifth-generation BiCS FLASH
Kioxia announced that it had developed fifth-generation BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory with a 112-layer stacked structure. It said it planned to start shipping samples for specific applications in the first quarter of 2020.
2020
Kioxia unveils fifth-generation BiCS FLASH
Kioxia announced that it had successfully developed its fifth-generation BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory, featuring a 112-layer vertically stacked structure. It plans to start shipping samples in the first quarter of 2020.
2020
Yasuo Naruke steps down from Kioxia leadership roles
Kioxia said Yasuo Naruke notified its board that he wished to step down as president, CEO, and board member while focusing on his health.
2020
Kioxia appoints Nobuo Hayasaka president and CEO
Kioxia Holdings Corporation announced that its board appointed Nobuo Hayasaka as Kioxia's president and CEO, effective immediately.