{"slug": "pr-kioxia-and-sandisk-unveil-new-high-performance-qlc-3d-flash-memory", "title": "(PR) Kioxia and Sandisk Unveil New High-Performance QLC 3D Flash Memory", "summary": "Kioxia Corporation and Sandisk Corporation unveiled their 9th-generation 2 Tb QLC 3D flash memory technology, designed to support AI-driven infrastructure with higher write and read bandwidth, improved power efficiency, and a 33% faster NAND interface speed of 4.8 Gb/s compared to the previous generation.", "body_md": "Kioxia Corporation, a subsidiary of Kioxia Holdings Corporation (TOKYO: 285A) and Sandisk Corporation (Nasdaq: SNDK) today unveiled their new 9th-generation, high-performance 2 Tb QLC 3D flash memory technology designed to support the growing storage demands of AI-driven infrastructure. The technology demonstrates how architectural innovation can help storage advance at the fast pace required by AI-driven workloads, while supporting more capital-efficient manufacturing.\n\nLeveraging the companies' CMOS directly Bonded to Array (CBA) architecture, the new technology combines an advanced CMOS wafer with a proven memory-array platform, along with significant design and device innovation, to deliver performance improvements and enable faster deployment of advanced storage solutions for cloud and data-intensive applications. Compared with the previous 8th-generation 2 Tb QLC, the new technology delivers higher write and read bandwidth due to a 6-plane architecture and performance enhancements, and better write and read power efficiency. And it also delivers a NAND interface speed of 4.8 Gb/s, a 33% improvement over 8th-generation devices.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pr-kioxia-and-sandisk-unveil-new-high-performance-qlc-3d-flash-memory", "canonical_source": "https://www.techpowerup.com/351552/kioxia-and-sandisk-unveil-new-high-performance-qlc-3d-flash-memory", "published_at": "2026-08-12 14:11:35+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-12 14:45:35.036168+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Kioxia Corporation", "Sandisk Corporation", "Kioxia Holdings Corporation"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pr-kioxia-and-sandisk-unveil-new-high-performance-qlc-3d-flash-memory", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pr-kioxia-and-sandisk-unveil-new-high-performance-qlc-3d-flash-memory.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pr-kioxia-and-sandisk-unveil-new-high-performance-qlc-3d-flash-memory.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pr-kioxia-and-sandisk-unveil-new-high-performance-qlc-3d-flash-memory.jsonld"}}