Kioxia develops 170-layer NAND, joining elite chipmaking club

Former Toshiba Memory to produce smaller, faster memory chip with eye on 5G

202102018 Kioxia plant

The new NAND memory can write data more than twice as fast as Kioxia's current top-of-the line product.

YOICHIRO HIROI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Japanese chipmaker Kioxia has developed NAND flash memory with roughly 170 layers, joining American peer Micron Technology and South Korea's SK Hynix in obtaining the cutting-edge technology, Nikkei has learned.

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