According to the asahi newspaper reported, Toshiba announced recently in semiconductor factory in mie prefecture 4 city newly built workshop, with the famous brand SanDisk semiconductor (SanDisk) cooperation, investment more than 500 billion yen. New plants are expected to be put into use in 2017, mainly produces newest NAND type flash memory for smart phones.

Affected by the financial scandal last year, Toshiba performance deterioration, drastically reducing the production of TV, computer, and start making mass layoffs. At the same time, Toshiba will continue to the main revenue semiconductor business to invest 200 billion yen the size of the equipment, and South Korea's samsung electronics and other rivals to compete.

New plants will be built next to the existing factories, at present has begun negotiations with landowners and local commune. New plants will produce the three-dimensional structure of overlapping memory to memory unit. Even if its battery runs out, this kind of data in a NAND type flash memory will not disappear, is indispensable to smart phones and USB storage devices. Storage unit can not overlap with the past compared to the old memory, the new memory to store more data, high-performance smart phones and enterprise data center will be growing demand for this kind of memory. At the same time, this new type of flash memory also can reduce the production cost of a particular memory capacity.

Toshiba is affected by financial scandal, the stock is the Tokyo stock exchange is specified as "AD hoc note market shares," public offerings of new shares by company to pass and issuance of company bonds to finance. Therefore, the cost of the construction of the new plant will be borrowed from financial institutions.

At the same time, due to the semiconductor business in the future still need huge investment, so the Toshiba now also considering to establish a branch, to launch new shares.