Toshiba

Toshiba board supports – without recommending – $15 billion takeover bid

It's probably going to happen, but final approval depends on 'circumstances'

Legal24 Mar 2023 | 6

Toshiba COO dumped over entertainment expenses scandal

Asia In Brief PLUS: Chinese province to buy four million servers; Google Cloud's nine-day APAC network glitch; and more

Legal19 Feb 2023 | 1

Toshiba breaks its silence on sales rumors, to quash them

Asia In Brief PLUS: FTX may be sold in Japan and Singapore; Binance busted in Australia; India won’t limit gaming time

Legal18 Dec 2022 |

Want to crawl inside a nuke plant swinging a hammer? No? Toshiba's inspection bots will do it instead

Go ahead, feel redundant: machines reduce maintenance time by 12 days and go places humans cannot

Software13 Oct 2022 | 12

Xiaomi India names Qualcomm as destination for allegedly illegal payments

Asia In Brief PLUS: Toshiba considers offers, clams up; India's HFCL claims Wi-Fi 7 first; Vietnam may censor SocMed; and more

Legal04 Oct 2022 | 1

Indonesia accuses Google of abusing monopoly

Asia In Brief PLUS: Qualys CEO says APAC has infosec advantages; Singapore's Sea ebbs in Americas; Toshiba's tepid takeover update; and more

CSO19 Sep 2022 | 4

Toshiba shrinks its shortlist of suitors but warns a deal won't happen soon

Bain and Japan Industrial Partners among those in the running

Legal21 Jul 2022 |

Activist investors join Toshiba board to pave the way to sale

Appointments said to 'strengthen the alignment between shareholders and management'

Systems28 Jun 2022 |

Toshiba shares up as buyers prepare to shell out $22b

Japanese tech conglomerate has reportedly received 10 offers, each with a different idea about how to do things

Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 1

Toshiba considering 11 possible futures

Management reveals 10 suitors, plus a digital transformation plan to become a software-defined business

Software03 Jun 2022 | 1

Toshiba says it's talking to 10 suitors about possible sale

Hires external advisors to bolster decision making capacity and hints it could consider multiple buyout plans

Legal16 May 2022 | 7

Toshiba puts going private on the table

Appoints independent committee and gives angry investors most of what they want

Legal08 Apr 2022 | 4

Another big Toshiba shareholder calls for major change

3D Investment Partners wants to sell, labels company a 'governance embarrassment for Japan'

Legal07 Apr 2022 | 1

Bain Capital plots to buy Toshiba with help from largest shareholder

Updated The deal is a long way from done and players can already foresee rival bids

Storage01 Apr 2022 | 7

Toshiba shareholders reject split plan and private sale

Back to the drawing board for company plagued by years of scandals

Legal24 Mar 2022 | 2

Toshiba's top investors signal strident opposition to planned two-way split

They’re not bothering to be particularly polite about it either

On-Prem11 Mar 2022 | 5

Toshiba CEO steps down as objections to re-org persist

Architect of rejected three-way split passes the baton as decision day looms

On-Prem01 Mar 2022 | 1

Toshiba reveals 30TB disk drive to arrive by 2024

I want to be your SledgeMAMR

Storage09 Feb 2022 | 72

Toshiba decides Twoshiba's the best strategy, cans plan to create Threeshiba crowd

Strategy to make printer co. its flagbearer dropped, hands that job to infrastructure mega corp

On-Prem08 Feb 2022 | 2

New chip-stuff factories are like buses: You wafer ages then two come along at once

GlobalWafers uses cash stashed for stalled Siltronics deal and Toshiba also promises new wafer bakery

On-Prem07 Feb 2022 | 3

Earthquake halts operations at two of Toshiba's chip factories

6.6-rated rumble joins fire, snow, plague, and trade war as source of recent semiconductor supply chain SNAFUs

On-Prem25 Jan 2022 | 6

Threeshiba: Key Toshiba investor opposes firm's split

3D Investments said plan will result in 'three underperforming companies'

On-Prem29 Nov 2021 | 2

Toshiba to become Threeshiba – company split to spur growth as strife persists

One company for devices, one for office kit, another for infrastructure, batteries & tech services, Kioxia stake to be sold

On-Prem15 Nov 2021 | 6

Shareholders give Toshiba chairman the boot following foreign investor voting scandal

Alleged exec meetings with Japanese government detailed in explosive report

Legal25 Jun 2021 | 3

Toshiba engulfed by scandal again — and the prime minister is implicated

Company conspired with government to make life hard for activist foreign investors

Legal21 Jun 2021 | 17

US-based hard disk drive suppliers face further scrutiny over whether they've shipped proscribed HDDs to Huawei

Updated The Wicker man: US Commerce Committee senator questions Toshiba, Seagate and WD

Storage12 May 2021 | 8

Toshiba rejects private equity buyout offer on grounds it was scarcely credible

Tells CVC and other would-be buyers to get serious and read Japanese regulations, or go home

On-Prem21 Apr 2021 | 1

Toshiba launches cloudy managed IoT database service running its own GridDB

And ponders whether to let itself be bought by private equiteer CVC for $20bn

Edge + IoT08 Apr 2021 | 1

Toshiba brings quantum-inspired computer out of the cloud and onto the desktop

Simulated Bifurcation Machine burns algorithms onto FPGAs, pops 'em into a vanilla workstation, and offers 10x performance for some problems

Systems30 Mar 2021 | 8

Synology to enforce use of validated disks in enterprise NAS boxes. And guess what? Only its own disks exceed 4TB

NAS spinner's drives are Toshiba tin with custom firmware

Storage02 Feb 2021 | 108

Toshiba to sell off-the-shelf quantum key distribution kit, eventually offer it as-a-service

Wait until the ‘we need backdoors’ crowd hears about this

Science20 Oct 2020 | 11

Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

Last Dynabook shares shuffled off to new owner Sharp

Personal Tech07 Aug 2020 | 41

HP scores $176m win in CD-ROM drive price-fix case – after one biz emailed rival with 'Price Fixing' as the subject

Quanta was the last one standing... and now kneeling

Storage23 Oct 2019 | 22

Japan and Greece collide as Toshiba's storage biz spinoff reborn as Kioxia

Logowatch Kioku (memory) + axia (value) = $$$

Bootnotes18 Jul 2019 | 5

One teeensy little 13-minute power cut, and WD you look at the size of that chip supply cut!

Western Digital 'fesses up to taking 6 exabyte hit, Toshiba still mum

Storage28 Jun 2019 | 38

It's a great time to buy DRAM and NAND, not to sell – just ask SK Hynix

Chip flinger slams brakes on production as it waits for demand to pick up

Storage25 Apr 2019 | 4

Keeping a low profile, NVMe: Toshiba sticks out XD5 2.5-inch gumstick

Pint-sized drive in quart bottle

Storage14 Mar 2019 |

Bain of Toshiba's existence: Dark night for flash fabber TMC if it's a faceoff with Western Dig

And an IPO could mean just that...

Storage24 Jan 2019 | 1

WD you like to know the damage? Analyst predicts sales dip ahead for Western Digital

NAND revenues and disk drive topline downbound until mid-year - Wells Fargo

Storage18 Jan 2019 | 2

Feeling a bit gassy? Toshiba floats 16TB helium whopper

Nine-platter beast serves up high-capacity spinning rust

Storage08 Jan 2019 | 24

MAMR Mia – it's not just WD: Toshiba's popped to the microwave too

Oscillating microwaves reduce coercivity, permit small area bit writing

Storage07 Dec 2018 | 12

He, He, more gassy whoppers: Toshiba spreads 12TB, 14TB drives across gaming and NAS disks

Extremely, er, unspecified helium-filled gaming disk performance

Storage06 Dec 2018 | 8

If you ever felt like you needed to carry 4TB of data around, Toshiba's got you covered

External Canvio drive leads the way in capacity upgrade

Storage05 Dec 2018 | 36

Grandmaster flash Samsung dominated SSD market in 3Q2018

Plus: PC, notebook hard drive ships set to be eclipsed by flash

Storage23 Nov 2018 | 4

Number-three disk drive maker Toshiba isn't shy about shipping 23.4m spinners in 3Q18

Will it increase capacity in a tuned-in MAMR?

Storage07 Nov 2018 |

Disky business: Seagate hyperscale customers slow to 'digest' inventory

Analysis Antacid, anyone?

Storage06 Nov 2018 | 2

Seagate and Western Digital neck-and-neck at the nearline drive-in

Seagate ships more units, WD more capacity – it's a wash

Storage23 Oct 2018 | 2

Seagate passes gassy 14TB whopper: He He He, one for each of you

Misses no one: PCs, NAS, workstations, enterprise, surveillance

Storage10 Sep 2018 | 46

Toshiba crams 14TB into another helium drive, this time with SAS boost

MG07SCA is a workhorse designed for constant use

Storage29 Aug 2018 | 20

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Storage20 Aug 2018 | 3

Oh my Tosh, it's only a 100TB small form-factor SSD, SK?

Flash Memory Summit Layer cake magic as flash capacity set to soar

Storage14 Aug 2018 | 61

No pain, no $1.3bn Bain gain: Seagate slips Tosh/WD chippery into Nytro SSD ranges

NAND that... is how you get skin in the flash game

Storage09 Aug 2018 |

Toshiba gets NASty: Soups up hi-cap enterprise drive

9-platter capacity drive modified for NAS use

Storage01 Aug 2018 | 10

Cheap NAND nasty: Flooding market with chips threatens prices

Analysis Risk of a flash glut rises as fab output increases

Storage31 Jul 2018 | 23

So solid spinning crew Seagate on hunt for new chief beancounter

Plus: Splashes profits on dividends and share buy-backs, according to latest figures

On-Prem30 Jul 2018 |

Western Digital wonders why enterprise isn't keen on its solid-state drives

We must sell more!

Storage27 Jul 2018 | 21