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SK hynix drops Solidigm IPO, confirms new US SSD fab plans

SK hynix said it has scrapped plans for an initial public offering of its US enterprise SSD unit Solidigm, blaming unfavorable stock market conditions and a semiconductor share price correction. The company confirmed it will still build a new fab for Solidigm in the US to meet rising demand for high-capacity enterprise SSDs, though it has not disclosed the facility's capacity, cost, or timeline.

Kioxia launches LD4-series E1.L SSDs, architecture scales to 122.88TB

Kioxia has introduced its LD4-series SSDs in the E1.L form factor, built on BiCS8 3D QLC NAND and targeted at read-heavy hyperscale workloads such as AI storage and object storage. The drives currently ship at up to 30.72TB, but Kioxia says the underlying architecture has been validated to support capacities as high as 122.88TB, without giving a launch timeline for those larger models.