In the sale of Toshiba's semiconductor storage business, China's Ministry of Commerce antitrust authorities approved the acquisition of Bain Capital (Bain) as a buyer. During the period under review, the intervention of the Chinese government, which had been called on to provide technology under the pretext of antitrust law, raised concerns. The antitrust review was passed, perhaps proving that China, which tapped us and South Korea's technical talent, has started to accumulate technology steadily. In China, the government's Violet Light Group is pushing the production of semiconductor storage domestically. The company's semiconductor memory development company, the Yangtze River Storage Technology (YMTC) in the fall of 2016 in the U.S. Silicon Valley set up a research and development base. Based on the technical staff of Sandisk, a large memory enterprise, the autonomous development of memory was initiated. In China, the violet light also to a dozens of of people's size to dig South Korea Samsung Electronics, SK Heidelberg and Taiwan's Integrated circuit manufacturing (TSMC) technicians, to promote the accumulation of production technology. The company also established a design base in Cqs, Japan, employing technicians who have been working on storage research in electronics companies such as Toshiba. The violet Group, which receives funding from the Chinese government, is pushing to ensure technical personnel and build large factories. The violet light is known around the world when it was proposed to buy US American-made technology 3 years ago. It was not yet known that the violet Light sought to buy large memory businesses with about 2 trillion yen. A few months later, the purple Light also to the U.S. Western data (Western Digital) to invest about 450 billion yen, but all because of the U.S. government's opposition to achieve. With the funding and acquisition strategy deadlocked, Violet turned to the policy of digging technicians from leading companies. Violet notes the successful experience of the rapid growth of China's panel makers in the same period, and believes that if the best technicians are ensured, it can take some time to realize the technology accumulation. Relevant sources said that the Yangtze River storage technology has hundreds of people of foreign development and technical personnel, is in Wuhan, Hubei province to build a cost of about 3 trillion yen large factories. However, in the semiconductor field, even if the production equipment, it is still difficult to achieve stable production, it is difficult to speculate on the actual technical level of the plant. The violet light is not strongly opposed to the Toshiba storage sale, perhaps because the company is steadily advancing its layout to achieve memory volume production.
