(AOF) – Western Digital has relaunched negotiations with the Japanese company Kioxia Holdings Corp. for a merger agreement between the two computer storage specialists, says Bloomberg citing sources familiar with the matter. The current talks, which were reignited late last year, are still in their early stages and could also end without a deal being reached, they added. Discussions in 2021 between the two groups had failed. The two companies have a joint venture that manufactures flash memory.
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New ambitions of Samsung and Huawei on the market
Samsung recently unveiled four new laptops after it backed away from operating outside Korea in 2015. For his part, faced with the American sanctions which have penalized his activities in the field of smartphones since 2019, the founder of Huawei, called at the beginning of the year his employees to accelerate the diversification of the group. The Chinese giant recently displayed its ambitions in the PC/tablet market, which is one of the pillars of this strategy. To do this, it will have to compete with Lenovo in China and above all take market share in the United States and Western Europe, markets known to be difficult to penetrate.