{"id":1031689,"date":"2026-08-28T08:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031689"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:43:07","slug":"kioxia-sandisk-plan-31-4-billion-japan-investment-to-boost-ai-chip-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/28\/kioxia-sandisk-plan-31-4-billion-japan-investment-to-boost-ai-chip-output\/","title":{"rendered":"Kioxia, Sandisk plan $31.4 billion Japan investment to boost AI chip output"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kioxia Holdings and Sandisk plan to spend more than $31.4 billion to ratchet up production capacity in Japan, boosting output of a critical AI data centre component. <\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo-based maker of NAND flash memory aims to invest that amount over six years, Kioxia CEO Hiroo Ota said on Thursday. The company intends to invest $11.3 billion (approx) on a new fab in Kitakami alone. <\/p>\n<p>That plant will make high-density 3D flash memory chips designed to help manage massive workflows generated by AI services. The investment reflects growing pressure to ramp up output and ease a global crunch that\u2019s raising the cost of electronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kioxia Holdings and Sandisk plan to spend more than $31.4 billion to ratchet up production capacity in Japan, boosting output of a critical AI data centre component. The Tokyo-based maker of NAND flash memory aims to invest that amount over six years, Kioxia CEO Hiroo Ota said on Thursday. The company intends to invest $11.3 billion (approx) on a new fab in Kitakami alone. That plant will make high-density 3D flash memory chips designed to help manage massive workflows generated by AI services. The investment reflects growing pressure to ramp up output and ease a global crunch that\u2019s raising the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031713,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031689\/revisions\/1031713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}