Looking at how the Japanese government is trying to protect national interests in the sale of Toshiba's assets associated with the release of solid state memory, it becomes unclear what miracle allowed the "Chinese interventionist" Foxconn after long negotiations to gain control of Sharp assets. Apparently, in the business of Toshiba, the Japanese authorities have more strategic interests, as the note published by the Reuters agency points to the Japanese government's desire to by all possible means to stop the leakage of NAND-type memory technologies abroad.
While the news actively discusses the desire of SK Hynix and Foxconn to purchase Toshiba business, informed sources mention the installation of Japanese authorities who are ready to use all legal methods to cut off participation in the bidding of Chinese and South Korean investors. In fact, green light is given only to American companies, among which Western Digital Corporation may appear (the latter recently bought SanDisk, through which it participates in a joint venture with Toshiba), Micron Technology and Bain Capital. The last figurant is a clean water institutional investor, to whom Toshiba's technologies alone are not as interesting as the ability to earn on reselling assets or dividends.
Japanese laws provide that if a foreign company has an interest in buying assets related to national security, the buyer will need to receive the approval of the Japanese authorities. And if the deal with Toshiba will be recognized affecting the interests of national security, the unwanted candidates will be able cut off. Of course, for Toshiba itself, reducing the number of potential buyers is not good news, as low competition will not allow you to raise the price to the desired $ 13 billion.
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