Kioxia Advances Client NAND Roadmap With BiCS9 TLC Samples

TechPowerUp carried Kioxia's announcement that early customer evaluation has started for a 1 Tb TLC NAND device built with ninth-generation BiCS technology. The target markets are client devices where performance and cost have to fit mainstream AI PC and smartphone storage tiers. The item adds a useful NAND roadmap datapoint. Kioxia is keeping this generation aimed at performance and investment efficiency while reserving its next layer-stacking push for higher-density products. That could broaden future client storage choices, but the report does not include volume timing, named customers or contract-price information.