Western Digital and Japan's Kioxia call off merger talks - Nikkei

File photo: KIOXIA gadgets can be seen at COMPUTEX Taipei, one of the world's largest computer and technology trade shows in Taipei, Taiwan, May 24, 2022. REUTERS/Ann/File photo

TOKYO (Reuters) -Western Digital Corp and Japan's Kioxia Holdings have broken off talks to create one of the world's biggest chipmakers, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Thursday.

The U.S.-based company earlier in the day notified Kioxia it would exit the talks after the merger failed to secure approval from SK Hynix, an indirect shareholder in Kioxia, the newspaper said, without saying where it got the information.