Kioxia Ships Samples of New Memory From Its Cutting-Edge Iwate Fab
# Kioxia# memory chips# Kitakami fab# NAND
Key Points
- Kioxia began sample shipments of a new memory chip
- It features high capacity and low power draw
- Production uses the newest equipment at the Kitakami plant's second building
Analysis
Kioxia started sampling a high-capacity, low-power memory chip produced on cutting-edge equipment at its Kitakami, Iwate plant—another data point in Japan's AI-driven memory investment wave alongside Micron's Hiroshima expansion.