As the epidemic continued to heat up in Japan, after large companies such as Toyota announced a shutdown and production suspension, Toshiba Group also decided to give a long holiday of up to 17 days to 76,000 people.
According to a report by Fuji Television of Japan, on the evening of April 15, Japan Toshiba Group decided to temporarily close all its departments and facilities in Japan. According to the data of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan and various local governments, as of 22:00 on April 15, there were 539 newly diagnosed cases in Japan that day, and a total of 8570 confirmed cases. The number of deaths increased by 16 cases per day to 178 cases.
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According to people familiar with the matter, Toshiba Group decided to shut down all departments and facilities in Japan from April 20 to May 6, which includes the group headquarters and some factories. It should be noted that, in addition to its power plants and other businesses related to social infrastructure projects, the group's approximately 76,000 employees will begin "vacation." The Kyodo News also reported this news.
It should be noted that since Toshiba sold its Toshiba Memory Corporation to the "Japan-U.S.-South Korea Alliance" led by Bain Capital in the United States in June 2018, Toshiba continues to hold nearly 40% of Kioxia's Equity is still the largest shareholder. Toshiba Memory officially changed its name to Armored Hero in October 2019, so the full shutdown of Toshiba in Japan may not be related to Armored Hero, and the related memory supply may not be affected by the shutdown.
Toshiba and Kaixia have not commented on the matter, but Qunlian confirmed in the morning that the suspended Toshiba and Kaixia are not the same company.
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According to Taiwan media reports, the group of NAND memory control chip vendors said that the downtime of Toshiba and KIOXIA are two separate independent companies.
Qunlian pointed out that the original Toshiba Memory Corporation (TMC), which is the company ’s shareholder and a NAND Flash supplier, has been renamed to Kai Xia since October last year. s company.
Qunlian also emphasized that the current operations and production of Kaixia are normal, which has not affected the supply of NAND Flash with Qunlian, and the company's NAND Flash suppliers have a wide range of sources, including Japan, the United States, South Korea and mainland China, etc., to global customers. No worry about supply.
