Flash memory business development developed by Toshiba Yasuo Naige died on August 3, 22:19
Yasuo Narige, who was the first president of Kioxia Holdings, which became independent from Toshiba, has died with the sale of the NAND semiconductor flash memory business developed by Toshiba for many years. I was 65 years old.
Mr. Narimo joined Toshiba in 1984 and has been leading the business of the memory semiconductor "NAND flash memory" developed by Toshiba in 1987 for many years.
In 2015, he became vice president of Toshiba.
In 2017, he was appointed president of Toshiba Memory, a semiconductor subsidiary that was spun off by Toshiba. When Toshiba decided to sell a large amount of loss in the American nuclear business and secure the funds necessary for business reconstruction, to sell the earning semiconductor business to the Japan-US-Korea Union, which will make it with an American investment fund etc. As president, he led the negotiations.
After Toshiba Memory was sold to the Japan-US-Korea Union in 2018, he served as president, and in October of last year, the company name was changed to Kioxia Holdings.
Mr. Narimo was hospitalized from June last year for medical treatment of illness, and he retired from the president of Kioxia Holdings in January this year and was devoted to treatment, but died on July 27 due to illness. It was I was 65 years old.