Maintaining technology leadership in flash memory
First written in FY2025. 1 of 3 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2026. Latest entry: 2026-08-27.
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- 2026-08-27RestatedManagement plan
「Kioxia and SanDisk have jointly developed world-leading NAND flash memory technology for many years.」
Restated the explanation of leadership in flash memory technology through joint development with SanDisk. The original thread remains unchanged. - FY2026AdvancedAnnual report
「The Group announced the KIOXIA CM9 series, NVMe enterprise SSDs and the first enterprise SSDs equipped with eighth-generation BiCS FLASH™ TLC flash memory. Compared with the previous-generation KIOXIA CM7 series, performance improved by approximately 65% for random writes, 55% for random reads and 95% for sequential writes.」
In addition to launching products using eighth-generation BiCS FLASH™, the Group quantified performance improvements over the previous generation. - FY2025First statedAnnual report
「The Group will continue to use its technological capabilities to develop competitive flash memory offering higher capacity, lower costs and higher performance, while also developing next-generation memory with reliability and stability to succeed current flash memory products.」
The Group is advancing capacity, speed and power efficiency through eighth-generation BiCS FLASH, CBA, OPS, 218-layer and 10th-generation 332-layer technologies, as well as 4.8Gb/s technology.