India, June 4 -- As South Korea's memory giants shift focus toward 1c DRAM capacity expansion amid surging demand, Global Economic, citing German tech outlet ComputerBase, reports that the Kioxia-SanDisk alliance is moving fast to reassert its position in the NAND market, capitalizing on an investment gap as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix divert resources toward HBM.

According to the reports, the U.S.-Japan NAND consortium is expected to execute total capital expenditure of $4.5 billion (about KRW 6.75 trillion) in the current fiscal year, marking a 41% year-on-year increase.

Notably, a key focus of the alliance would likely be the 10th-generation NAND. Nikkei previously reported that Kioxia plans to begin mass production at its Kitak...