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Yokohama-expansion

February 07, 2024
The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has said it will give Kioxia and Western Digital USD 1 billion to boost memory production.

sign-on-wall

January 23, 2023
Memory chip manufacturers Western Digital Corp and Kioxia Holdings are reportedly in advanced talks regarding a possible merger.

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Fab7-Opening-Ceremony

October 26, 2022
Kioxia Corporation and Western Digital Corporation have officially opened its new semiconductor fabrication facility, Fab7, at the Yokkaichi Plant in Mie Prefecture, Japan.

Fab7-Yokkaichi-Plant

September 30, 2022
Japan’s Kioxia Corporation says that it will reduce the production volume at two of its flash memory plants.

Fab7-Yokkaichi-Plant

July 29, 2022
Kioxia Corporation and Western Digital Corporation say that their joint venture, the Fab7 manufacturing facility at Yokkaichi Plant, has been approved to receive up to JPY 92.9 billion (USD 699.3 million) in subsidy from the Japanese government.

production

April 21, 2022
At the end of 2021, 57% of the industry’s total monthly wafer capacity was owned by just five companies. One year earlier the share held by the top five was 56% and back in 2018 it was 53%. If we go back a decade, that share was about 40%, according to Knometa Research.

Fab7-Yokkaichi-Plant

April 15, 2022
Kioxia and Western Digital Corp. have finalised a formal agreement to jointly invest in the first phase of the Fab7 (Y7) manufacturing facility at Kioxia’s Yokkaichi Plant in the Mie Prefecture of Japan.

render-Fab2-Kitakami-Plant

April 06, 2022
The memory specialist has broken ground for its new semiconductor fabrication facility (Fab2) at its Kitakami Plant in Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

Yokkaichi-plant-2022

March 03, 2022
Back in February, Western Digital Corp. and Kioxia announced that there had been a contamination of certain material used in the manufacturing processes the companies Yokkaichi and Kitakami flash fabrication facilities.

Yokkaichi-plant-2022

February 10, 2022
WDC recently stated that certain materials were contaminated in late January at NAND Flash production lines in Yokkaichi and Kitakami, Japan which are joint ventures with Kioxia.

New-Fabrication-Facility-at-Yokkaichi-Plant

February 10, 2022
In two separate press releases, Western Digital Corp. and Kioxia Corporation, inform that contamination of certain material used in its manufacturing processes has occurred and is affecting production operations at the companies Yokkaichi and Kitakami flash fabrication facilities.

Chongqing-facility

March 03, 2021
The quarterly total revenue of the NAND Flash industry came to USD 14.1 billion in 4Q20, showing a QoQ drop of 2.9%, according to TrendForce’s latest report.

New-Fabrication-Facility-at-Yokkaichi-Plant

February 26, 2021
Kioxia has started the construction of new fabrication facility at its Yokkaichi plant, located on the Mie Prefecture, Japan, to support the production of sixth-generation 3D flash memory.

worldwide-wafer-capacity-leaders

February 10, 2021
Each of the top-five wafer capacity leaders had capacity of at least 1.5 million wafer starts per month. The combined capacity of the top five companies represented 54% of total global wafer capacity in December 2020, up one point from 53% in 2019.

sign-on-wall

December 11, 2020
The company will expand its Kitakami plant site with another facility, K2, to further increase its flash memory production capacity.

revenue-ranking-branded-nand-3q20

November 26, 2020
Total NAND Flash revenue reached USD 14.5 billion in 3Q20, a 0.3% increase QoQ, while total NAND Flash bit shipment rose by 9% QoQ, but the ASP fell by 9% QoQ, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations.

architect-drawings

October 29, 2020
Kioxia Corporation says it will start construction of a fabrication facility (Fab7) at Yokkaichi Plant in the Mie Prefecture, Japan to expand production of its proprietary 3D Flash memory BiCS FLASHTM. Construction of the new fab is expected to commence during the spring of 2021.

businessman-graph

February 25, 2020
4Q19 NAND flash bit shipment increased by nearly 10% QoQ thanks to demand growth from data center clients, says the DRAMeXchange research division of TrendForce.

fire-alarm-bells-ringing

January 10, 2020
A fire broke out at Kioxia’s Yokkaichi plant – a joint venture facility owned by Kioxia and Western Digital – in Japan on January 7.

man-using-mobile-phone-with-drawings-of-charts

January 03, 2020
According to the latest analysis by the DRAMeXchange research division of TrendForce, the contract price of client SSD has fallen for seven consecutive quarters until 2Q19 from peak price, to barely above the price of HDD.

NAND-Flash-Sales-Q3-2019

November 25, 2019
3Q19 NAND flash industrial revenue showed a nearly 15% growth of total bit shipment, owing to the seasonality-driven demand for products shipments and the additional product shipment made available in preparation for U.S. tariffs, says the DRAMeXchange research division of TrendForce.

dram-nand-averagecapacity-price-evolution

October 16, 2019
“Combined DRAM and NAND revenue was USD 25.4 billion in 2Q/2019, down 5% from Q1 and down 39% year-over-year as sluggish demand and elevated inventory levels continued to plague the memory markets”, says Simone Bertolazzi, Memory Technology & Market Analyst at Yole Développement.

Fab6-Yokkaichi-clean-room

June 28, 2019
Toshiba Memory Corp. (TMC) reported that its main NAND Flash production base in Yokkaichi, Japan, experienced a 13-minute power outage on June 15.

man-using-mobile-phone-with-drawings-of-charts

February 21, 2019
The rising economic uncertainties caused some server manufacturers to delay restocking or cancel orders, and compelled those upstream in the supply chain to make adjustments to their production lines, damaging their ability to stock up, says DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce

Fab6-Yokkaichi-clean-room

September 19, 2018
Toshiba Memory Corporation and Western Digital have officially opened a new semiconductor fabrication facility, Fab 6, and Memory R&D Center, at its Yokkaichi operations in Mie Prefecture, Japan.

man-using-mobile-phone-with-drawings-of-charts

August 01, 2018
The latest analysis on the NAND Flash market by DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, forecasts that the ASP of NAND Flash will drop by around 10% QoQ respectively in 3Q18 and 4Q18.

render-of-new-fab-K1

July 24, 2018
Toshiba Memory Corporation says that the company has held a groundbreaking ceremony for the first semiconductor fabrication facility (fab), called K1, in Kitakami, Iwate prefecture, in northeastern Japan.

graphs-charts

June 27, 2018
The growth momentum for 2H18 NAND Flash market is expected to be weak, according to the latest report of DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce.

Toshiba-building-fab6

March 29, 2018
Toshiba has approved Toshiba Memory Corporation's (TMC) proposed investment in production equipment for the Fab 6 clean room, the next-gen flash memory production facility under construction at Yokkaichi Operations.

Panasonic-industrial-Devices-Material-shanghai

February 15, 2018
Panasonic will launch the mass production of molded underfill semiconductor encapsulation materials in Shanghai, China in response to the increased production of semiconductor packages in the region.

January 24, 2018
Toshiba and Western Digital have reached an agreement on December 13th, 2017, after lawsuits and disputes over joint venture throughout the past year.

architect-drawings

January 03, 2018
Toshiba says that the company is going ahead with a forward-looking plan for a new memory fabrication facility in Kitakami, Iwate prefecture.

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