{"id":18551,"date":"2012-07-24T01:33:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T23:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=18551"},"modified":"2012-07-24T01:38:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T23:38:55","slug":"toshiba-to-cut-memory-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/18551\/toshiba-to-cut-memory-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshiba to cut memory production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toshiba Corp plans to reduce production of NAND flash memory by 30 percent, its first cutback since 2009, Japanese business daily Nikkei reported.<\/p>\n<p>Toshiba will start cutting output at its Yokkaichi plant in Mie Prefecture as early as this month, the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for flash memory used in USB drives and SD cards has shrunk as the global economy slows, leading to increasing inventories and falling prices.<\/p>\n<p>Chipmakers like SanDisk Corp, Micron Technology Inc, Elpida Memory Inc, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd all ramped up their NAND production capacity in a buoyant market for smart phones and tablets, but a glut in supply drove prices to new lows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/17026\/toshiba-slapped-with-87-million-price-fixing-fine\/\"><strong>Toshiba slapped with $87 million price-fixing fine<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/16010\/toshiba-to-build-japans-largest-solar-plant\/\">Toshiba to build Japan\u2019s largest solar plant<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/12748\/toshiba-targets-5-6-billion-profit-for-201415\/\"><strong>Toshiba targets $5.6 billion profit for 2014\/15<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/11789\/toshiba-rides-the-apple-success-wave\/\"><strong>Toshiba rides the Apple success wave<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/10824\/the-battle-for-tv-control-in-asia\/\"><strong>The battle for TV control in Asia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toshiba Corp plans to reduce production of NAND flash memory by 30 percent, its first cutback since 2009, Japanese business daily Nikkei reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,1003,2688,145],"class_list":["post-18551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-memory","tag-nand-chip","tag-toshiba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18565,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551\/revisions\/18565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}