New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO), Japan’s national research and development agency, has reached an agreement with Kioxia Corporation, a global leader in memory solutions formerly known as Toshiba Memory. The partnership aims for Kioxia to develop new memory technologies to support the infrastructure demands of post-5G communication systems.
As many parts of the Asia-Pacific region transition into a post-5G era, the volume of data generated and transmitted by connected devices is rising rapidly—a trend set to accelerate as artificial intelligence applications proliferate. This growth in data throughput will place heavier demands on data centres running communications systems, creating an urgent need for advanced data-processing solutions and increased capacity.
Kioxia has committed to addressing these needs in collaboration with NEDO. The company will concentrate on researching and eventually producing memory tailored for the Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) interface standard, designed specifically for high-performance data centre environments.
Next-generation memory must support rapid data transfer to and from high-performance processors, while also delivering higher capacity and lower energy consumption. Achieving all three goals—speed, density, and efficiency—is essential to meet evolving infrastructure requirements.
The initiative seeks to develop memory with reduced power requirements, higher bit density than what today’s DRAM architectures can provide, and read performance surpassing current flash memory. Such improvements would help alleviate bottlenecks across the hardware stack and enhance overall system performance.
As new processors and connectors enter the market, data centre operators and their customers will look to maximize the return on investment for upgraded CPU hardware and to eliminate performance limitations elsewhere in their infrastructure. Developing memory that offers substantially greater capacity while consuming less power—and therefore generating less heat—remains a critical engineering challenge.
With post-5G technologies nearing deployment across many APAC markets, the increased demands on communications networks may force telecom operators to reassess existing infrastructure and its constraints. Replacing core infrastructure is costly, so systems must be designed to be future-proof, providing excess capacity and flexibility to accommodate subsequent generational upgrades.
NEDO’s portfolio includes research into battery technologies, renewable energy, next-generation power systems, and industrial technologies for manufacturers and engineering firms in Japan. Its mission is to foster a more sustainable and technologically advanced future for the country. Because NEDO emphasizes both social and economic benefits, Kioxia’s work to create higher-capacity, faster, and more energy-efficient memory for a broad range of applications aligns well with NEDO’s objectives.
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