A few days ago we knew that Toshiba, a Japanese company in the technology sector and supplier of components for many companies, Apple among them, put up for sale one of its most important subdivisions, targeting fundraising for the rest of its departments.
This NAND Flash memory semiconductor subdivision it will go on sale starting at about $ 9 billion at the exchange rate. Numerous companies around the globe have echoed the news and have been interested in acquiring this subdivision of one of the most prestigious companies in the world in this regard. Apple is one of them.
A battle for said acquisition has begun. Yes OK Western Digital, the main manufacturer of NAND type memories in the world, was the first to be interested in the purchase, little by little actors have been added to the scene. Thus, along with Apple, North American companies such as Amazon, Broadcom or own Google.
This situation is not strange: Toshiba currently has one of the most robust and stable supply chains in the world. With her, Apple, Google Anyone who finally manages to purchase this subdivision of the Japanese company will get an attractive Flash memory manufacturing business for their own use in their devices and for sale to other companies in the sector.
The play could be masterful. Apart from the costs that could be saved by companies like Apple or Google If they manufactured their own memories, in the particular case of Apple it would also achieve that Samsung lost its main customer of components for the manufacture of this type of memory.
For the moment, the figures reached in Apple's proposals are unknown, Amazon o Google. However, it is speculated that Broadcom offered to Toshiba about $ 18 billion. In addition, it is not ruled out that there are other competitors to take over this strategic subdivision for the interests of many companies.
