Kioxia Group is committed to nurturing and utilizing its diverse talent to help them make full use of their individual abilities and play an active role in the workplace.
Foundation for Value Creation
Kioxia Group continues to strengthen the key foundations that support its ability to provide value to society. These foundations are human resources, technology, and partnerships.
Human Resources
Our human resources represent important capital that helps us meet the expanding and increasingly sophisticated and wide-ranging needs of the market in a timely way. We recruit and train high-caliber graduates and experienced people to work with advanced technologies, and are implementing processes that will enable diverse employees to make full use of their capabilities.
Recruitment Initiatives
We focus on recruiting diverse human resources capable of working on an expanding range of memory and SSD product applications and other increasingly sophisticated technologies, to help us meet growing demand.
Number of New Graduate Recruits in Administrative and Technical Positions (Kioxia Corporation) 1
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FY2019 |
FY2020 |
FY2021 |
FY2022 |
FY2023 |
FY2024 |
FY2025 |
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280 |
207 |
298 |
303 |
379 |
229 |
56 |
- 1 Those who have completed undergraduate or postgraduate degrees
- 2 As of April 1 each fiscal year
Recruiting Talent with Diverse Expertise
Kioxia Group strengthens mid-career recruitment and deploys talent development systems to bring in highly skilled professionals and create an environment where each individual can make full use of their capabilities.
Number of Mid-Career Recruits (Kioxia Corporation)
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113 |
275 |
280 |
282 |
25 |
63 |
Kioxia Group promotes diversity to enable employees with different backgrounds and personalities to fully demonstrate their abilities.
Technology
We will steadfastly maintain our leadership position in the field of semiconductor memory technology by continuing to advance research and technology development with a long-term perspective.
Basic Approach to Research and Technology Development
As a technology leader in the field of memory, Kioxia Group is engaged in cutting-edge research and development, aiming to continuously expand its business portfolio.
Collaboration with R&D Partners
To conduct timely, cutting-edge research and development in diverse fields in a rapidly changing and competitive environment, it is necessary to have access at all times to the latest know-how in a number of fields. Kioxia Group collaborates with R&D partners in Japan and overseas (technology organizations, universities and research institutes) to incorporate a wide range of knowledge and ideas, with the aim of further evolving its products and technologies.
In addition to collaborating with partners in research and development, Kioxia Group actively engages in personnel exchange through open innovation.
In Japan, we have established the following three frameworks.
- Research grants: Supporting research in Japan at academic institutions in a wide range of fields, including semiconductors
- Joint research: Addressing business issues through a deep understanding of technology
- Comprehensive collaboration: Aiming to develop the next generation of researchers, in addition to conducting research
Overseas, Kioxia Group is also forging links with a number of universities and research institutes.
Main Achievements in FY2024
In Japan, in the area of research grants we solicited proposals for research projects in fields such as information processing; AI-related technologies; big data; applications; security; semiconductor circuit design; devices; manufacturing and process simulation technologies; and carbon-neutral environmental technologies for use in semiconductor manufacturing.
In the area of joint research, we continue to conduct activities in conjunction with academic institutions in Japan. We are also continuing to collaborate with the University of Electro-Communications and Waseda Research Institute for Science & Engineering in a number of activities. In addition, under a research agreement with Nagoya University, we are conducting research in the field of mobility while strengthening collaboration and promoting personnel exchange through a steering committee.
Overseas, we are conducting ongoing joint research with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab in the United States, among other institutions.
Research and Technology Development Achievements
While constantly working to develop cutting-edge technologies, Kioxia Group has also been highly commended for presenting its research findings through a variety of channels, including major academic societies and research papers.
Main Achievements in FY2024
Kioxia Corporation started sample shipments1 of 2 tera bit (Tb) Quad-Level Cell (QLC) memory devices with its BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 3D flash memory technology on July 3, 2024. This 2 Tb QLC device boasts the highest capacity in the industry,2 elevating storage devices to a new capacity point that will address growth in multiple application segments including AI.
With its BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 technology, Kioxia Corporation has achieved both vertical and lateral scaling of memory die through proprietary processes and an innovative architecture. In addition, it has implemented the groundbreaking CMOS directly Bonded to Array (CBA) 3 technology, which enables the creation of higher density devices and an industry-leading interface speed of 3.6 Gbps.4 Together, these advanced technologies are applied in the 2 Tb QLC, resulting in the industry’s highest capacity memory device.
- These samples are for evaluation purposes and their specifications may differ from those in mass production.
- As of July 3, 2024. Kioxia Corporation data.
- CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology, wherein each CMOS wafer and cell array wafer are manufactured separately under their optimal conditions and then bonded together.
- 1 Gbps is calculated as 1,000,000,000 bits/second. This value is obtained under Kioxia Corporation’s specific testing environment and may vary depending on the use conditions.
Kioxia Corporation developed Oxide-Semiconductor Channel Transistor DRAM (OCTRAM), a new type of DRAM comprising an oxide-semiconductor transistor that simultaneously achieves a high ON current and an ultra-low OFF current. This technology is expected to realize lower power consumption than conventional DRAM. OCTRAM was first announced at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) held in San Francisco, California on December 9, 2024. Jointly developed by Nanya Technology of Taiwan and Kioxia Corporation, OCTRAM has the potential to lower power consumption in a wide range of applications, including servers with large-scale main memory for AI and post-5G communication systems, and IoT products.
This award is presented to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in promoting the development and use of flash memory and related technologies. In August 2024, at the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) event held in Santa Clara, USA, employees of Kioxia Corporation received the Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their pioneering achievement in the development of BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory.
At the China Flash Market Summit/MemoryS 2025 (“CFMS 2025”) held in March 2025 in Shenzhen, China, Kioxia Corporation showcased its SSD product lineup featuring BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 3D flash memory technology for efficient and reliable storage solutions required by evolving cloud computing and large-scale AI models. Included in the lineup was the KIOXIA LC9 Series, Kioxia Corporation’s first high-capacity 122.88 terabyte (TB) NVMe™ enterprise SSD, incorporating 2 terabit (Tb) QLC BiCS FLASH™ generation 8.
Additionally, Kioxia Corporation’s Technology Executive for SSD gave a presentation on “SSD Market Vision and Key Technologies after AI Era.” In his presentation, he explored new challenges to flash memory technology brought about by the increasing demand in the AI application arena, and shared Kioxia Group’s strategy. To respond to industry needs for flash memory and SSD products with higher power efficiency, storage density, performance and reliability, Kioxia Group continues to deliver efficient AI storage solutions through its advanced flash memory technology and extensive experience in the enterprise market, working in partnership with customers.
Initiatives Aimed at Creating Intellectual Property
Kioxia Corporation has been named a Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators 2025, an award recognizing the most innovative global companies by UK company Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing transformative intelligence. This marks the fourth consecutive year that Kioxia Corporation has received this honor in recognition of its accomplishments in intellectual property.
The Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators are selected through Clarivate Plc’s proprietary analysis of intellectual property and patent trends. Evaluations are based on multiple indicators, including not only volume but also influence, success rate, geographical investment, and rarity. Kioxia Corporation was recognized in particular for its strong performance in the areas of success rate and geographical investment.
Based on its mission of “uplifting the world with ‘memory,’” Kioxia Group will cultivate a new era of memory with its innovative technology to promote research and technology development that supports the digital society of the future. Kioxia Corporation continues to protect and effectively utilize its intellectual property and proactively develop initiatives to strengthen the competitiveness of its memory and SSD business.
As a global leader in flash memory and SSD technologies, Kioxia Group is committed to cutting-edge research and development, and actively promotes intellectual property activities to protect the results. As of December 2024, Kioxia Corporation held over 14,000 registered patents worldwide, and continues to protect and utilize its own intellectual property appropriately, while respecting the legitimate intellectual property rights of others.
Partnerships
We will build strong relationships with our customers and other partners, with the aim of growing together sustainably.
Co-Creation with Partners
Kioxia Group builds partnerships with customers, R&D partners and suppliers to create products and services that anticipate the needs of society. We collaborate and generate synergy with these partners, aiming to create value for society.
Customers
Kioxia Group has established global sales, technical support, and supply chain networks to anticipate the needs of customers, who deliver new value to society around the world, and to respond to any of their issues swiftly.
R&D partners
Kioxia Group collaborates with R&D partners in Japan and overseas to incorporate a wide range of cutting-edge knowledge and ideas with the aim of further evolving its products and technologies. Partners include technology organizations, universities, research institutes, and other companies.
Suppliers
Kioxia Group will ensure a steady supply of high-quality products through co-creation with suppliers and strengthen its competitiveness by creating new manufacturing technologies and other innovations.
Main Achievements in FY2024
Customers
In FY2024, we continued to engage on a regular basis with our customers via quarterly business reviews and other means. Listening to customers’ views and understanding their requirements helps us to establish how we can partner with them more effectively to support their business expansion. It also highlights for us how we can improve our products and services and enhance the sustainability of customers’ own supply chains.
R&D partners
Suppliers
Mutual Understanding with Suppliers
Kioxia Group provides its suppliers with opportunities to understand its business strategies and to foster mutual understanding with the aim of growing together. For example, we regularly exchange opinions with equipment manufacturers on achieving energy savings and increasing productivity.
