Toshiba promises to deliver 40TB HDD’s
Toshiba will be increasing its HDD capacity to 40TB in the coming years. The organization promises to release a 30TB HDD by 2024, gradually increasing capacity in the years beyond.
A recent roadmap shows that, between the current fiscal year and 2026, Toshiba plans to significantly increase the ... Read more
Toshiba constructs plant to double semiconductor production
This spring, Toshiba hopes to double its production capacity by constructing a new chip factory in Japan.
The Japanese tech giant will start constructing a new plant for energy semiconductors in Ishikawa, Japan. The plant will support production lines for 300-millimetre chip wafers.
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Toshiba refuses buyout plans from venture investors
According to Reuters, Japanese tech giant Toshiba is sticking to its plan of splitting the organization into three separate parts. The company has recently refused several acquisition proposals from private investment companies.
After a series of scandals, Toshiba announced that it wanted to reg... Read more
Toshiba plans to split into three companies
Toshiba plans to split into three separate companies. To do this, the Japanese tech group is divesting its energy and infrastructure, and device and storage divisions. Toshiba itself will continue as a shareholder in other tech companies.
According to Reuters, the major structural change is prom... Read more
Toshiba’s new drives are perfect for NAS and PC
Toshiba unveiled 18TB hard drives in the N300 NAS hard drive and X300 performance drive series. The drives are 9-disk helium-sealed units fitted with Toshiba's Flux Control – Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology.
By using FC-MAMR, Toshiba managed to boost drive density by... Read more
Seagate is still the king of HDDs, Western Digital is closing gap
In Q2 2021, HDDs have shown a positive dynamic after underperforming in recent years. The big three HDD suppliers (Western Digital, Toshiba, Seagate) shipped a record 350.7 exabytes. The demand mainly came from exascale data centers, operators, and Chia miners.
Seagate is still at the top of the... Read more
Toshiba regrets colluding with government to strong-arm its shareholders
Toshiba has released an open letter regarding recently publicized information from an independent investigation, which found that the company pressured shareholders into voting a certain way. The company says in the letter that it acknowledges the actions and that they have impacted trust.
The l... Read more
Toshiba caves to investors and drops two board members
Investors are demanding the move, but the Chairman is refusing to go quietly.
Toshiba this week said it will drop two existing directors from its board as major shareholders, according to a report in Bloomberg News. The move is in response to an investor revolt, which demanded accountability aft... Read more
Researchers create an ‘un-hackable’ quantum optical fiber network
Toshiba researchers demonstrated quantum key distribution on fibers of record 600km in length
Japanese tech giant Toshiba announced this week that they have successfully sent quantum information over 600-kilometer-long optical fibers. With that, they set a a new distance record and have heralde... Read more
European subsidiary of Toshiba hit by ransomware attack
Toshiba Tec France Imaging Systems has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The company is a subsidiary of Toshiba that focuses on point-of-sale equipment and multifunction printers.
Reuters reports that the attack was carried out by DarkSide, the same group of hackers who were behind the recen... Read more