Western Digital Corp. has offered 2 trillion yen ($17.8 billion) to buy Toshiba Corp.'s chip unit put up for sale by the embattled Japanese conglomerate, sources close to the matter said Wednesday.But the Japanese company has shown reluctance over the U.S. firm's proposal to purchase Toshiba Memory Corp., the world's second-largest producer of NAND flash memory chips which are used in smartphones and other devices, the sources said.Western Digital Chief Executive Officer Steve Milligan and Toshiba President Satoshi Tsunakawa held talks in Tokyo on Wednesday but few details were known.The U.…READ FULL ARTICLE
