# KIOXIA America, Inc.

> KIOXIA America is the U.S. subsidiary of Japan’s Kioxia Corporation, supplying flash memory and SSDs for enterprise servers, cloud data centers, PCs, mobile devices and automotive systems. Its role combines product introduction, customer technology transitions, sales, marketing and storage R&D. The group’s vertically integrated flash, controller and firmware expertise underpins products such as the high-capacity LC9 SSD family.

- **Headquarters:** San Jose, United States
- **Products:** BiCS FLASH, LC9 Series enterprise SSDs, CM9-DLC Series, LD4 Series, AiSAQ
- **Notable:** Technology heritage includes Toshiba’s 1987 invention of NAND flash and 2007 announcement of 3D flash technology., Announced a 245.76 TB LC9 enterprise SSD in July 2025., With Dell, announced a roughly 9.8 PB raw-flash 2U server configuration in May 2026.

## Products & services

- **BiCS FLASH** — Group-developed 3D NAND flash technology, first announced in 2007, used across SSDs and embedded memory.
- **LC9 Series enterprise SSDs** — High-capacity PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD family; 245.76 TB variants were announced in July 2025 for AI and data-intensive storage. Announcement availability was sampling to selected customers.
- **CM9-DLC Series** — E3.S enterprise SSD models supporting cold-plate direct liquid cooling and air cooling; read-intensive and mixed-use endurance options, sampling announced October 2026.
- **LD4 Series** — Read-intensive E1.L QLC SSDs for hyperscale 1U servers; October 2026 sampling announcement listed 15.36 TB and 30.72 TB models, with an architecture validated up to 122.88 TB.
- **AiSAQ** — Open-source SSD-based approximate nearest-neighbor search software, integrated into Milvus from version 2.6.4 to reduce DRAM requirements.
- **Client SSDs and embedded flash** — SSD products for PC OEMs and UFS, e-MMC and other flash solutions for mobile, automotive and connected-device applications.

## Achievements

- Technology heritage includes Toshiba’s 1987 invention of NAND flash and 2007 announcement of 3D flash technology.
- Announced a 245.76 TB LC9 enterprise SSD in July 2025.
- With Dell, announced a roughly 9.8 PB raw-flash 2U server configuration in May 2026.
- Parent Kioxia Holdings listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market on December 18, 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — October 12: introduced CM9-DLC cold-plate-compatible enterprise SSD models; announcement said sampling to select customers.
- **2026-10** — October 8: introduced LD4 E1.L QLC SSDs for read-intensive hyperscale storage; sampling to select customers.
- **2026-08** — August 27: Kioxia and Sandisk announced anticipated investments exceeding $31 billion in Japan through 2032, contingent upon government support.
- **2026-05** — May 14: announced Dell PowerEdge configuration with 40 LC9 drives and approximately 9.8 PB raw flash storage.

## Links

- Website: https://americas.kioxia.com/en-us/top.html
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kioxia-america-inc/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/KioxiaAmerica
- GitHub: https://github.com/kioxia-jp
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/kioxiaamerica
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Kioxia_US/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KioxiaAmerica/

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Last updated: 2026-10-22