Why Apple, Amazon and Google want to buy part of Toshiba?

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At last Thursday's shareholders' meeting in Chiba, Japan, Toshiba's majority shareholders decided to separate their NAND-type Flash memory business from the company's core conglomerate. What it means to put shares for sale. From here, the madness ...

Private investment firm Silver Lake Partners Learning and Finance, along with chip maker Broadcom, has put $ 17.9 billion into the table to get the entire Toshiba flash memory chip manufacturing unit. Under normal conditions such a large amount of money would have been sufficient to close the deal ... Until Apple, Amazon and Google, each on their own, have come into full swing in the bid. It has not been revealed how much they have put on the table.

They are not the only candidates. Up to ten large companies have been interested in the shares of the Toshiba chip unit. From direct rivals like Micron and Western Digital, to investment firms that have glimpsed the possibility of making money.

Why is Toshiba's NAND flash drive so appealing? This type of memory is used to store information on portable devices or on SSD hard drives, among many other applications. And Toshiba is one of the most prestigious manufacturers.

If Apple, Amazon, or Google had their own NAND flash memory maker, they could save hundreds of millions on making their smartphones, tablets, and Internet devices for Things, as well as doing business selling NAND memory for computers, or Other brands, as Toshiba has done so far.

This type of component is one of the most requested, as the requirements of memory and access speed required by modern hardware increase. Despite being the richest companies in the world, Apple, Google and Amazon will not have it easy to buy Toshiba's NAND flash drive, as there are many other candidates with lots of money bidding for it. Who will win the auction?