YOKKAICHI, Japan & SAN JOSE, Calif. -Wednesday 19 September 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Memory Corporation and Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:WDC) today celebrated the opening of a new state-of-the-art semiconductor fabrication facility, Fab 6, and the Memory R&D Center, at Yokkaichi operations in Mie Prefecture, Japan.

Toshiba Memory started construction of Fab 6, a dedicated 3D flash memory fabrication facility, in February 2017. Toshiba Memory and Western Digital have installed cutting-edge manufacturing equipment for key production processes including deposition and etching. Mass production of 96-layer 3D flash memory utilizing the new fab began earlier this month.

Demand for 3D flash memory is growing for enterprise servers, data centers and smartphones, and is expected to continue to expand in the years ahead. Further investments to expand its production will be made in line with market trends.

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 – Opinion Based on Pivotal Phase 2 ALTA Trial, in which ALUNBRIG Demonstrated an Objective Response Rate of 56% and Longest Reported Median Progression-Free Survival of 16.7 months in the Post-Crizotinib Setting –

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & OSAKA, Japan-Sunday 23 September 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502) today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion, recommending the full approval of ALUNBRIG®(brigatinib) as a monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive (ALK+) advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) previously treated with crizotinib. ALUNBRIG is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) designed to target and inhibit the ALK mutation in NSCLC. Approximately three to five percent of NSCLC patients globally have the ALK mutation. If the ... Read more »