Toshiba (Toshiba) as a pillar of working to rebuild semiconductor unit new BGF program content exposure, the Toshiba to transform in the triple county 4, the factory production of "NAND type Flash Memory (Flash Memory)" business spin-off, and consider its listing, to raise the huge amounts of money to r&d; In addition, the big points, two counties of iwate factory will by for other manufacturers foundry, to strengthen the profitability.

Reports that Toshiba will be announced on December 21, such as TV, PC and electrical home appliances business as the center of the rationalization measures, is likely to cut thousands of workers, and semiconductor and nuclear power, machine department for medical use to the business by Toshiba positioning as the core business, so the Toshiba semiconductor business performance are eager to reply.

, according to DRAMeXchange, according to the data published in 2015 in the third quarter, samsung NAND memory, at a rate of 31.5%, down 1.1% from the same period a year earlier. Toshiba rise 1.4% to 20.5%; Sandisk growth of 2% to 15.4%.

Toshiba after the outbreak of accounting scandals, formally in September on the road of the new management team is in bold streamlining measure, after October announced it would exit the CMOS image sensor and white leds market, after a few days ago and from Toshiba PC business will likely and Fujitsu, VAIO close and, and Toshiba home appliances/TV career may top will cut 7000 jobs.