KIOXIA and Linus Media Group Set World Record for Pi Calculation

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, today announced that it has collaborated with Linus Media Group, creator of Linus Tech Tips and other influential technology-focused YouTube^TM channels, to set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS^® title for the Most Accurate Value of Pi. A groundbreaking 300 trillion digits were calculated and have been officially verified and confirmed by Guinness World Records¹.

The record-smashing computation was enabled by a high-performance storage cluster comprising 2.2 petabytes (PB)² of 30.72 terabyte (TB) CM Series and 15.36 TB CD Series PCIe^®NVMe^™-based solid-state drives (SSDs) from KIOXIA. These SSDs were configured in a network-attached storage environment connected to a dual-CPU compute server and ran for nearly seven and a half months.

Pi (π) represents the mathematical constant expressing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Its decimal representation extends infinitely without repeating. This new record significantly surpasses the previous official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS benchmark of 62 trillion digits by a factor of nearly five.

The record-setting achievement was documented in a feature video released by the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel, giving viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the project and revealing the final digit of the record-setting calculation: spoiler alert…the 300 trillionth digit of Pi is 5.

To watch the full video, visit: https://youtu.be/BD-AJwqzWsU

About the Guinness World Records Certification for the Most Accurate Value of Pi

Notes:
¹As of April 2, 2025
²1 petabyte = 1 billion megabytes (for example, 1 petabyte is equivalent to approximately 300 million 3 MB images taken with a smartphone)

Definition of capacity: KIOXIA Corporation defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes and 1TB = 2^40 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.

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About Kioxia

Kioxia is a world leader in memory solutions, dedicated to the development, production and sale of flash memory and solid-state drives (SSDs). In April 2017, its predecessor Toshiba Memory was spun off from Toshiba Corporation, the company that invented NAND flash memory in 1987. Kioxia is committed to uplifting the world with “memory” by offering products, services and systems that create choice for customers and memory-based value for society. Kioxia's innovative 3D flash memory technology, BiCS FLASH™, is shaping the future of storage in high-density applications, including advanced smartphones, PCs, automotive systems, data centers and generative AI systems.

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KIOXIA and Linus Media Group Set World Record for Pi Calculation