Kioxia Says Cheap 1TB SSDs Are History As Storage Production Sells Out

As Willie Nelson once said, "Turn out the lights, the party's over, they say that all good things must end." Those lyrics date all the way back to the 1950s, and so it's safe to say he was not referring to solid state drive (SSD) storage. He might as well have been, though, because now Kioxia is singing the same tune about the days of cheap SSDs having come to end, at least for now.

We'll give you three guesses as to why, though by this point, you should only need one. Here's a hint: artificial intelligence. We've already seen AI-driven demand for NAND flash memory chips wreak havoc on consumer DRAM prices, but it's not stopping there. Storage is next and to some extent, it's already happening. The implication for consumers is that dirt cheap SSDs are becoming increasingly rare.

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