In a spin-off deal that would see WD focus on hard drives

Company will license IBM technology to build sub-2nm chips

Further exacerbating the fragile semiconductor supply chain

Selects Fujitsu, NEC, AIO Core, Kioxia, and Kyocera for research into SiC wafers, optical technologies

Severely impacting NAND supplies, which could cause prices to rise

Each is interested in buying the $30bn memory company