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Santosh Varghese
Vice President, Digital Products & Services Division, Toshiba Gulf FZE
REINFORCING VALUE THROUGH ENHANCED STORAGE Santosh Varghese, Vice President, Digital Products & Services Division, Toshiba Gulf FZE discusses the focus on — Bybrand R. Narayan the new consumer range under KIOXIA
Please elaborate on the storage portfolio for consumer as well as Business segments? Toshiba MEA ‘s storage portfolio includes a complete range of storage products from Micro SD cards in your smartphones to 16TB Helium filled Enterprise Cloud Storage. The entire storage range comprises NAND Flash based MicroSD, USB and SD cards, SSD and Disk based internal hard disk drives, external hard drives, NAS, gaming, surveillance, enterprise mission critical and cloud based capacity drives. SMARTSMB / May 2020
Elaborate on the new rebranding under Kioxia for the consumer range?
products for Micro SD cards, USB, SD cards and SSD .
KIOXIA is a combination of the Japanese word Kioku meaning ‘’Memory’’ and Greek word Axia meaning ‘’Value" which forms the foundation of the company’s vision which is unleashing the potential of memory to create new value.
What are the current products under the Kioxia range? Are they only Flash based products?
Toshiba Memory Corporation has been rebranded as KIOXIA Corporation effective from 1st of October 2019 and in mid-April recently, we launched KIOXIA branded consumer
Kioxia products are all NAND Flash based products. The current portfolio of KIOXIA memory products are 3D flash memory based with 96 layer BiCS FLASH. The mass production of this technology started in Sep 2018 under Toshiba Memory. BiCS flash memory will ensure higher capacity production. KIOXIA factory have an advanced
