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SK hynix confirmed it will build a new US fab for its subsidiary Solidigm to expand production of 3D QLC NAND flash used in high-capacity enterprise SSDs, as AI-driven demand strains existing capacity. However, the company has shelved plans for a Solidigm IPO or pre-IPO funding round, citing market volatility and a semiconductor stock correction. No timeline, output figures, or financing plan have been disclosed.
DapuStor introduced a dual-mode firmware for its enterprise J5060 SSD that lets operators carve out a portion of QLC flash to run as pSLC, boosting speed at the cost of capacity. Depending on configuration, users sacrifice 6% to 20% of QLC storage in exchange for random-write performance that's over seven times faster, with the fixed region exposed as its own block device rather than a dynamic cache. The drive, shown at FMS 2026, spans 15.36TB to 122.88TB capacities but still has no announced price, customer, or release date.