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KIOXIA BiCS FLASH™ 3D Flash Memory
A New Era of Flash Memory Innovation
Having invented NAND flash memory over 35 years ago, KIOXIA is today one of the industry’s leading flash memory suppliers — and continues to move the technology forward. The launch of KIOXIA BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory in 2007 strengthened the company’s reputation as a technology innovation leader by introducing a revolutionary vertical stacking and lateral scaling process to significantly increase memory cells per unit area. The result is a breakthrough flash memory architecture that addresses the unceasing demand for improved storage density and performance.
BiCS FLASH™ 3D Flash Memory – Purpose Built for Your Application
KIOXIA 3D Flash Memory "BiCS FLASH™" is a breakthrough innovation that meets the needs of data-centric applications like advanced smartphones, PCs, and data centers. To meet the demands for high density and performance, each generation of BiCS FLASH™ builds on the enhancements and technological advancements of its predecessors and is designed to address specific use cases and capital planning considerations. You can be confident that choosing KIOXIA 3D flash memory products will help you meet the rapidly evolving storage and performance requirements of modern technology tools and applications.
All generations of BiCS FLASH™ products support the important Kioxia objective of delivering sustainable technology solutions to the world.
BiCS FLASH™ Migration Covering Diverse Requirements with Multiple Nodes
- “gen.” represents a generation of BiCS FLASH™.
As detailed in the accompanying diagram above, KIOXIA provides a range of BiCS FLASH™ technology generations, each engineered to address specific requirements across density, performance and power efficiency. KIOXIA’s Dual-Axis Strategy—a business and technological approach that develops two separate 3D flash memory lines to meet different market needs—offers high performance flash memory for a wide variety of applications.
Applications Benefit from BiCS FLASH™ Technology
BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 – New Architecture, Unmatched Benefits
BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 delivers significant enhancements by applying two new technologies, CMOS directly Bonded to Array (CBA) and On Pitch Select Gate (OPS), to the flash memory production process. Simply put, CBA and OPS are manufacturing and design techniques that drive increases in density, performance and power efficiency.
BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 is an ideal technology solution for customers whose storage requirements are being stressed by the explosion of data-intensive applications and AI capabilities.
BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 improvements over generation 6
Next Generations of BiCS FLASH™ Technology
BiCS FLASH™ generation 9
Impressive Performance and Power Efficiency
BiCS FLASH™ generation 9 512Gb and 1Tb TLC (Triple-Level Cell) are designed to support applications requiring high performance and exceptional power efficiency in the low- to mid-level storage capacities. 9th generation BiCS FLASH™ products leverage existing CBA and OPS technologies to improve production efficiency and deliver cutting-edge flash memory solutions.
- The photo shows a 1Tb TLC memory devices.
BiCS FLASH™ generation 10
The Future of 3D Flash Memory
BiCS FLASH™ generation 10 products leverage the same CMOS technology of generation 9 and incorporated the expansion in the number of memory layers to meet the future demand for larger-capacity, high-performance solutions. Featuring an industry-leading 332 layers which is 1.5x more than generation 8, KIOXIA continues to drive notable advancements in flash memory bit density and power efficiency.
Innovative Technologies That Pave Ways to Higher Capacity
Underpinning the major enhancements of current generation BiCS FLASH™ products are several breakthrough technology innovations. Improvements in density, performance and power efficiency were achieved through advances in flash memory engineering design and assembly processes. Explore how CBA, OPS and 32-die memory assembly are delivering the future of 3D flash memory.
Products by Applications
Whether it’s automotive applications or compact high performance-oriented PCs or cloud server and hyperscale data center deployments, by delivering advanced high performance, high density, low power, low latency, reliability and more—KIOXIA memory and storage solutions enable the success of emerging applications and allow existing technologies to reach their expected potential.
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