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This photo taken on July 5, 2025 shows signage for Japanese company Kioxia, the world's third largest manufacturer of NAND flash memory chips, at their Yokohama Technology Campus in the Ofuna area of Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, south of Tokyo. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)

Memory manufacturer Kioxia reveals its entire NAND flash production volume for 2026 is already 'sold out'

By Jess Kinghorn published

News And we're unlikely to see supply improve until 2027 at the earliest.

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The SK Hynix Semiconductor Inc. logo is displayed at the company's plant during a media tour organized by Korea Industrial Complex Corp. (KICOX) in Cheongju, South Korea, on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. KICOX, which develops and manages industrial complexes and support for resident enterprises as a public company under South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy, held a media tour to the plant

SK Hynix's unique way of chopping cells in two is a big step in making PLC flash memory chips viable and could offer a solution to ballooning SSD prices

By Nick Evanson published

News Though we're still some way off from seeing the light at the end of the AI-induced tunnel.

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The Micron 3610 SSD rests on a reflective surface on a black background.

Micron isn't done with consumer SSDs after all, unveiling a PCIe 5.0 QLC drive that should be both affordable *and* fast

By Jess Kinghorn published

CES 2026 QLC, not QVC.

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Crucial P3 Plus 2TB NVMe SSD on a white background

AI cloud companies have guzzled up so much HDD storage that they might be coming for our SSDs next

By Jacob Fox published

News *Smiles nervously*.

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A promotional image by SK Hynix, showing two 321-layer QLC NAND flash modules with a flash memory wafer in the background.

SK Hynix's 'world first' 321-layer QLC flash memory chips, boasting 100% faster transfer speeds and up to 56% greater write performance, will be in gaming PCs next year

By Nick Evanson published

News This could be the turning point where we all stop going 'Eww' when we see a QLC SSD.

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A promotional, stylised image for Micron's G9 QLC NAND flash memory chip

Want size and speed in your SSD? Micron's new 2600 boasts 'up to 63% faster sequential write and 49% faster random write speeds' than the competition

By Nick Evanson published

News Dancing the SLC, TLC, and QLC three-way tango.

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Crucial P3 Plus 2TB NVMe SSD on a white background

Crucial P3 Plus 2TB

By Jeremy Laird published

Review More capacity for less cash. But at what cost?

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Intel SSD 670p

You won't be able to buy a high capacity 5-bit PLC SSD until 2025 says WD

By Alan Dexter published

News The follow up to QLC is waiting on next-gen controllers.

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Samsung 870 QVO 1TB SSD front and back

Samsung 870 QVO 1TB SSD review

By Jacob Ridley published

4-bit flash Samsung's stoking the QLC NAND flash fire with its second-generation 870 QVO 1TB.

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Samsung 860 QVO SSD across cityscape

Samsung's leaked 8TB SSD might be the answer to growing game installs... for $900

By Jacob Ridley published

News Samsung appears to be prepping a new lineup of QLC drives—but will they be fast enough for gamers?

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