Kioxia Holdings’ top executive dismisses the prospect of deeper ties or a follow-on arrangement with rival SK Hynix, according to coverage of the company’s remarks. At the same time, Kioxia says it will work to ease pressures from rising memory chip prices.

The outlets describe Kioxia’s stance as an effort to address market concerns while protecting long-term demand, including from data center and AI-related customers. Bloomberg frames the comments around Kioxia’s commitment to prevent memory price increases from eroding longer-term growth, while also reducing the likelihood that stakeholders interpret the relationship with SK Hynix as moving toward deeper collaboration.

With only limited detail available from the provided excerpts, both sources converge on the same two themes: Kioxia downplays further involvement with SK Hynix and signals a desire to keep chip pricing from climbing too sharply.