Tagged With "NAND"

Chinese state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup, may acquire Toshiba and Scandisk according to an earlier report published by Digitimes that cited anonymous industry sources. The targeted companies own precious NAND patents and by acquiring them, Tsinghua will...

By Kim Yoo-chul In the latest standoff over attempts to purchase Toshiba's NAND flash memory chip business pursued by a Korea-Japan-U.S. consortium, China's regulators are seeking more protections for Chinese companies before approving the proposed purchase of the Toshiba unit. That may jeopardize the consortium's mega bid to close the deal, sources familiar with the issue told The Korea Times by telephone, Monday. "They were saying the consortium's proposed purchase of Toshiba's NAND chip...

The completion of the deal, initially aimed for by end-March, had been delayed due to a prolonged review by Chinese antitrust authorities. China approved the deal last month. The Bain consortium last year won a long and highly contentious battle for Toshiba Memory, the world’s No. 2 producer of NAND chips. Toshiba put the business up for sale after billions of dollars in cost overruns at its Westinghouse nuclear unit had plunged it into crisis. read the rest here

Solid state drive usage sees large growth Research published by Technavio Global market will grow by $167.41 billion from 2024 to 2028 CAGR (cumulative annual growth rate) of 35.02% Solid state drives (which are NAND memory chips) are replacing hard disk drives, which are now considered obsolete technology, due to data security vulnerability concerns