Japanese memory solutions company Kioxia Corporation has announced the completion of its new Fab2 (K2) building. Specifically, the company concluded the construction of the new building located in its Kitatami plant in July.

Accordingly, K2 is the second flash memory manufacturing facility at the Kitakami Plant in the Iwate Prefecture of Japan. As demand is recovering, the company will gradually make capital investments while closely monitoring flash memory market trends.

Kioxia plans to start operation at K2 in the fall of Calendar Year 2025.

Enhance R&D Capabilities

In addition, some administration and engineering departments will move into a new administration building located adjacent to K2. Accordingly, the transfer will commence beginning in November 2024 to oversee the operation of K2.

A portion of the investment for K2 will come from the Japanese government according to the plan approved in February 2024.

Under its mission of “uplifting the world with ‘memory”, Kioxia upholds its commitment to capturing flash memory market opportunities. Specifically, to meet the growing demand for AI applications and data centers. Kioxia will continue to proactively implement initiatives to enhance its research and development capabilities of flash memory and implement agile capital investments in line with market trends.

Innovative Memory Technologies

Based on its mission of “uplifting the world with ‘memory,’” Kioxia will cultivate a new era of memory with its innovative technology. Thus, promoting research and technology development that supports the future digital society.

The Frontier Technology R&D Institute will promote research and development of technologies to support the accelerated expansion of AI technology and its applications. Particularly, utilizing high-capacity and high-speed memory system technologies with new principles and new materials. At the same time, adopt new process technologies to spread these technologies to society at low cost.

“We aim to pursue continuous technological exploration and its social implementation to achieve an affluent and sustainable digitalized society through innovative memory technologies,” said Kioxia in a statement.

As IoT, AI and 5G technologies become more widespread, the industry will witness a dramatic increase in the volume of data generated around the world. Hence, large-capacity, high-performance memory and devices, and high-speed data processing systems will be indispensable for the storage and use of that data.

Kioxia said it is continuously evolving its technologies as among the industry’s global leaders in the field of flash memory and SSDs.

01 August 2024