Toshiba will build new production lines at its main semiconductor memory plant to address a demand increase.
Subsidiary Toshiba Memory foresees this increase in 2018 and will bear the entire cost of this planned 195 billion yen ($1.76 billion) investment. Talks with Western Digital on sharing the investment broke down as confrontation continues.
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