(FILES) A man walks out of the building where the headquarters of Kioxia, the world's third largest manufacturer of NAND flash memory chips, is located in central Tokyo on August 23, 2024. Ferocious AI-driven demand delivered quarterly net profit more than 45 times higher than last year's figure for Japanese chipmaker Kioxia, the company said on July 31, 2026. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP via Getty Images)