{"id":19094,"date":"2026-07-31T15:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=19094"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:06:04","slug":"chipmaker-kioxia-reports-ai-driven-45-fold-surge-in-quarterly-net-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=19094","title":{"rendered":"Chipmaker Kioxia reports AI-driven 45-fold surge in quarterly net profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || 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style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p>Ferocious AI-driven demand delivered quarterly net profit more than 45 times higher than last year\u2019s figure for Japanese chipmaker Kioxia, the company said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The global race to build artificial intelligence data centres has turbocharged business for chipmakers \u2014 sending prices soaring for memory components in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Kioxia specialises in so-called NAND flash chips, an increasingly hot commodity as AI agents \u2014 tools that carry out real-life tasks for users \u2014 require ever-more storage space.<\/p>\n<p>Kioxia said net profit in the April-June quarter came to 842.2 billion yen ($5.3 billion), a huge jump from 18.3 billion yen in the same period a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Operating profit was up around 2,700 percent year-on-year at 1.3 billion yen.<\/p>\n<p>Both figures missed analyst estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists.<\/p>\n<p>Tech shares have seen rollercoaster volatility in recent days, as investors lurch between bullish optimism over sustained AI demand, and fears that the big valuations are unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p>Kioxia\u2019s shares lost more than half their value over the past month, but are still up nearly 1,500 percent over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The chipmaker even briefly became Japan\u2019s most valuable company in June.<\/p>\n<p>It is a similar story for South Korea\u2019s Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, leading players in the market for advanced memory chips known as HBM, also in huge demand thanks to AI.<\/p>\n<p>Both those companies posted eye-watering profit jumps this week, while their share prices have gone haywire, with SK hynix skyrocketing 30 percent on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>SK hynix\u2019s surge was helped by confirmation that the chair of its parent company had bought around $3 million worth of shares, seen as a vote of confidence after recent steep losses.<\/p>\n<p>Kioxia started life as Toshiba Memory, a pioneering memory chip business that Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, then in dire financial straits, sold off in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Now the company says it is planning a US listing like SK hynix, which this month made its Wall Street debut after one of the world\u2019s biggest ever stock sales.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 728px 160px; gap:2px; width:908px; background:#eee; padding:2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u901a\u680f\u9876\u90e8\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u6a2a\u5e45 908x258 \u8de8\u6574\u884c -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; height:258px; background:#ff6b6b; display:grid; place-items:center;\">\r\n    <!-- JuicyAds v3.0 -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async src=\"https:\/\/poweredby.jads.co\/js\/jads.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins id=\"1114307\" data-width=\"908\" data-height=\"258\"><\/ins>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async>(adsbyjuicy = 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