Leaks: Toshiba plans to sell a stake of the company for the benefit of Western Digital

A report was published recently by Reuters refer to the Toshiba Corporation for the sale of a limited portion of the Department of the chips in the company's plans during the coming period, with expectations that the advancing Western Digital to buy the stake.

Achieve continuous success and increasingly for any company in the market certainly it requires constant development, as well as resources contribute to continued research and development, which is sought by Toshiba, according to a report by Reuters, where she is studying Toshiba sell a stake of commercial-chip business, for the benefit of Western Digital in the framework of its rival Korean giant Samsung.

Reuters report also pointed out that the Japanese company's shares, the value of Toshiba have fallen by 16 which is equivalent to the market value of $ 9 billion, according to market analysts who cited by Reuters, who stated that the company is trying to search for urgent funding to avoid downtime as a result of reduced shares billions may lead to the loss of the company market share, so it was one based solutions here in the division of work NAND flash memory chips and the sale of a stake of them.

Toshiba is the second largest producer in the world of NAND flash memory, which Samsung has come in first place, with a share of the planned size of the Toshiba sold between 20 to 30%.

Is also a Western Digital Group is one of the strongest candidate companies to buy Toshiba's stake, where I knew the group as one of the most powerful American manufacturer of drives companies, but that this merger is facing questions about how important it is, and whether the anti-monopoly law will allow an end to such a merger.

In remarks to the analyst market Doh Hyun-woo at Mirae Securities Corporation, which stated:

If the confirmation process of integration will improve the financial position of Toshiba Corporation, which will open up a space for the development, which reduces the gap between it and Samsung, Toshiba If the merger with Western Digital will exceed the combined share of Samsung Electronics.

But according to the CEO, Toshiba merger may not be a realistic option with the long time it will take to review the antitrust laws.

It is worth noting that Toshiba has a strong history of producing the chip NAND 2D, but they entered the competition late with the chip 3D NAND therefore lost its leadership position in favor of Samsung, At present, Samsung grab a share of 36.6% of the NAND 3D market, while the share of Toshiba up to only 19.8%.