Toshiba plans to exit the white LED market at the end of 2015

Toshiba moneydj financial network (Toshiba) on the 28 day to day after the shares issued a press release announced that will integrate chip for the system (System LSI) and discrete components (discrete) industry structural reform measures, the specific content of Toshiba will exit the CMOS image sensor and the white LED market.

Toshiba said it will withdraw from the CMOS image sensor market, and plans to sell a large factory support 12 inch silicon wafer production line and related facilities, equipment and other related assets to Sony, and the target is in the 2015 year (end of March 2016) the completion of the sale procedures.

In addition, Toshiba white LED belongs to discrete components business, Toshiba plans to the end of the year 2015 (end of March 2016) from the white LED market, after the resources will be concentrated in the power supply control chip, optical components etc. most growth potential products.

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