[Kioxia Plans to Build Third Wafer Plant in Iwate, Japan, Expanding AI Storage Chip Capacity] According to DeepTech TechFlow, on August 27, Bloomberg reported that Kioxia Holdings plans to build a third wafer plant at its production base in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, to expand storage chip capacity and meet the growing demand related to AI. Sources familiar with the matter stated that the new plant will produce the company's latest high-density 3D NAND flash memory chips, designed to handle large-scale data workloads generated by AI services. Kioxia began shipping its 10th-generation BiCS Flash stacked NAND products last month. The plan has not yet been publicly disclosed, and details regarding the construction timeline and investment scale remain unknown.