Western Digital to spin off flash memory business after Kioxia merger talks collapse
Western Digital won't merge with Kioxia (at least, not right now)
Kioxia develops functional 2TB microSDXC memory card prototype
The microSDXC spec has long supported 2TB capacities
WD plans to mass-produce 162-layer NAND by the end of the year, over 200 layers by 2024
More capacity and speed
Western Digital and Kioxia solve contamination issue affecting NAND fabs in Japan
The facilities will ramp back up to full capacity by June
Kioxia and Western Digital lose 6.5 exabytes of 3D NAND to contamination
The companies' SSD prices could be affected
Kioxia is close to releasing a PCIe 5.0 SSD that can hit 14,000 MB/s
The company is the first to join the PCIe 5.0 brigade
Western Digital reportedly in advanced talks to merge with Kioxia
The two companies combined would be the same size as Samsung
Toshiba's former memory business, Kioxia, files for IPO in Japan
Once a successful arm of Toshiba, Kioxia looks to go public this year
Kioxia is preparing next-gen NVMe PCIe 5.0-ready SSDs for enterprise data centers
Boasting a 35 percent performance increase over its current PCIe 4.0 offerings
Kioxia and Western Digital want to take on Intel Optane with XL-FLASH
The $3B persistent memory market is heating up
Toshiba Memory is changing its name to Kioxia
Likely in preparation of an initial public offering