Western Digital may make concession over Toshiba chip unit sale

U.S. chipmaker Western Digital Corp. has told Toshiba Corp. it may make a major concession by apparently pursuing taking a small portion of a stake in the Japanese conglomerate's chip business instead of exclusively purchasing the unit, sources close to the matter said Saturday.Western Digital, Toshiba's U.S. joint venture partner in chip-making operations in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, in central Japan, has objected to the sale of Toshiba Memory Corp. to bidders other than itself and demanded a preferential negotiation.A plan to get Western Digital to join a Japan-U.S. consortium that inclu…READ FULL ARTICLE