Kioxia starts sample shipments of new memory chips for AI data centers

Kioxia Holdings Corp. said Friday it has started sample shipments of its next-generation memory chips to meet rising demand for chips for artificial intelligence data centers.The chipmaker produces the new high-capacity, low power consumption flash memory chips at the second production facility of its Kitakami plant in Iwate Prefecture, which was open to the media on the same day.Driven by surging demand for chips for AI data centers, Kioxia said in May that it expects its net profit for the April-June quarter to increase more than 47-fold from a year earlier.The strong earnings outlook lea…READ FULL ARTICLE