According to the Nikkei news reported on the 5th, Foxconn chairman Gou said that Apple and Amazon joined the Foxconn on the Toshiba memory chip business bid for the bid to provide financial support, but did not disclose the amount of specific investment.

Apple and Amazon did not respond to the news. The two companies are Foxconn's main customers, Foxconn has more than half of the income from Apple to provide spare parts and product assembly, in addition to the company for the Amazon Kindle e-reader and Echo smart speakers.

Since the end of last year, Toshiba, which has been in financial trouble, has been seeking to make up for the huge losses of Westinghouse Electric, a subsidiary of US nuclear energy, by selling assets. Toshiba's NAND flash memory chip is widely used in smart phones, servers and PCs and other electronic products, is one of the major suppliers of Apple's iPhone memory chip, Amazon's data center server also need NAND chip.If you want to find more information about electronic components,please go to omoelec.com.

It is reported that Toshiba had previously intentionally to buy its chip business list of the company has been reduced, is still retained in the list of five interested buyers, Foxconn's highest bid, may be more than 2 trillion yen (about $ 18.2 billion). There is also news that the Japanese government may be due to the strategic value of Toshiba technology against its chip business sold to Foxconn or South Korea's Hynix.

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