Toshiba (Toshiba) as a whole of storage business vice President into Mao Kangxiong held 6, investors said at the meeting, will sprint NAND Flash production, target in 2018 to NAND Flash yield increase of annual 2015 three times the level (in capacity conversion).

About mass production started in the 2016 3 d structure of the NAND Flash, into Mao Kangxiong pointed out that the improved 3 d Flash production, goal in the 2017 3 d product which accounts for up to 5 into the overall production, further increase to 9 to levels around 2018.

Toshiba is the second largest NAND Flash vendors, market share is second only to samsung electronics.

The nikkei, Korea Herald (Chesapeake Herald) on July 6, unnamed alleged news, Toshiba and Western Digital hand in hand, in the next three years, the investment in 3-d NAND Flash 1.5 trillion yen ($14.6 billion).

According to mutual agreement, Toshiba, Western Digital will be in the city of Japan's triple county 4, existing joint venture plant new chip manufacturing equipment, most of the money will be used to install the 3-d NAND manufacturing device.

On March 18, Toshiba announced that it will in the 2016-2018 three years in total spending about 860 billion yen investment NAND Flash, in addition to 3 d Flash new plants will be built, will be carried out on the existing plant equipment updating, and raise the proportion of 3 d Flash production.

The latest report shows that 2016 Q1 (1 - march) NAND Flash brands season revenue minus 2.9% to $8.064 billion, has two consecutive quarter of decline. Toshiba NAND Flash revenue quarter increased 12.8%, much higher than samsung's 1.2%.

World market share of Q1 Toshiba NAND Flash from 2015 Q4 (10 to 12 months) of 18.6% to 21.6%, with samsung's city of gap narrowed to 15% from 13.5%. Q1 samsung market share of 35.1% Q4 (2015 33.6%) ranks the first place, 3-6 sandisk respectively (15.1% market share), meguiar's (13.3%), SK Hynix (7.9%) and Intel (6.9%).