{
  "id": 6517812,
  "title": "Kioxia dismisses SK Hynix tie-up and vows to ease chip price rises",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/kioxia-dismisses-sk-hynix-tie-up-and-vows-to-ease-chip-price-rises",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-10T01:31:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Japan Times",
    "slug": "japan-times",
    "url": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/10/companies/kioxia-sk-hynix-tie-up-dismiss/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Kioxia's chief executive dismissed the possibility of expanding business ties with SK Hynix, while vowing to control the escalating memory chip prices that are threatening long-term artificial intelligence demand. The memory chip manufacturers are investing heavily in expanding production capacity to meet the surge in orders from AI service providers, leading to drastic price hikes of up to double or triple digits. Some investors, including the chairman of SK Hynix's parent company, SK, have suggested that joint manufacturing partnerships could help alleviate the financial burden of substantial capital investments. However, Kioxia's CEO Hiroo Ota emphasized that any closer collaboration with SK Hynix would face antitrust challenges and would be challenging to align with Kioxia's joint manufacturing ventures with SanDisk. To counteract the runaway memory prices, Kioxia must seek alternative strategies.",
  "summary": "Memory chipmakers are embarking on costly production capacity increases to meet soaring orders from AI service providers.",
  "key_points": [
    "Kioxia CEO dismisses SK Hynix tie-up possibility",
    "Memory chip prices escalating, threatening AI demand",
    "Kioxia seeks alternative strategies to control prices"
  ],
  "editors_take": "Kioxia's rebuff of a partnership with SK Hynix means it will rely on its existing joint ventures and other strategies to mitigate the impact of rising memory chip prices on AI demand.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}