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Kioxia Holdings Corp., the memory chipmaker spun out of Toshiba Corp. in 2018, will cancel its current initial public offering plan to list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Nikkei Business magazine reported. The chipmaker decided not to go ahead as of now because a deepening of political tensions between the U.S. and China is expected to sharply weigh on its profitability, the report said, without saying where it got the information. A Kioxia spokesperson couldn’t immediately comment on the Nikkei report. Kioxia priced its initial public offering on Sept. 17 to raise as much as 306.7 billion...
