Japanese company Kioxia reported an operating loss of 100.8 billion yen ($664.5 million) for the second quarter of its current fiscal year, which ended September 30. This result is due to a decline in demand for flash memory for smartphones and PCs...
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Before the publication of the quarterly reports, negotiations over the takeover of the Japanese company Kioxia were stopped and the American company Western Digital announced a very obvious “Plan B”: its solid-state memory business would be spun off...
Until recently, it was assumed that the deal between Western Digital and Kioxia would be announced at the end of October, but the agency Nikkei Last night it was reported that negotiations on this issue had stopped. Reportedly, the main obstacle to...
Since 2021, there have been rumors about Western Digital’s intention to merge its solid-state storage holdings with Japanese company Kioxia. South Korean company SK hynix, an indirect investor in Kioxia, has not yet commented on the issue, but...
In 2016, American hard drive maker Western Digital acquired solid-state storage maker SanDisk while gaining control of a joint venture with Toshiba, of which Kioxia later became a co-owner. The American side is now preparing a new phase of...
After several months of negotiations, Western Digital and Kioxia will enter into a merger agreement in August. The deal will be formalized as a spin-off of Western Digital’s flash memory business and merger with Kioxia into a separate company...
Kioxia has announced a new generation of UFS 4.0 flash memory chips. Chips are produced in quantities of 256 and 512 GB and 1 TB. The company began shipping 256GB and 512GB chip samples this month. 1TB chip samples are scheduled to ship in October...
Kioxia has introduced the BG6 SSD series, which is primarily aimed at laptop and PC manufacturers. The novelties are made in M.2 2280 and M.2 2230 form factors, support the PCIe 4.0 interface and are based on the sixth generation of BiCS 3D NAND...
Rumors of Kioxia and Western Digital’s intentions to merge assets related to the release of solid-state storage first surfaced back in 2021, but then disagreements arose during negotiations over the valuation of the two parties’ business...
