by Antonio Delgado 6 hours ago …

Kioxia , manufacturer of memory chips, will open a new manufacturing plant for its patented BiCS Flash memories, this factory It will open at its facilities in Yokkaichi, Japan. They plan to carry it out in 2 parts, the first they hope to have finished by the beginning of next year 2022 , starting its construction on 2021 and you will receive the Fab7 name . The construction of this plant will be financed with its operating cash flow.

With the growth of cloud services, such as Facebook’s new streaming game service, IoT, Artificial Intelligence or 5G that is present in all new mobile devices , a high demand for this type of memory is expected, since all these services imply greater data storage. With this new plant, will be able to satisfy the memory needs of everyone , although a decrease in the prices of SSDs and RAM memory given the high supply in the market.

The Yokkaichi plant is the factory with the largest worldwide capacity to manufacture flash memory , this plant has with an ecological design with the latest energy saving technology. With this expansion, in which Western Digital will collaborate as a result of the agreement between both companies, it is intended to further expand this production capacity thanks to a new manufacturing system based on artificial intelligence .

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Antonio Delgado

Computer Engineer of training, editor and hardware analyst at Geeknetic since 2011. I love gutting everything that comes my way, especially the latest hardware that we get here for reviews. In my spare time I fiddle with 3d printers, drones and other gadgets. For anything here you have me.