Friday, March 10, 2017

Toshiba Nixes Foxconn - Business Espionage Fears

Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, is not a favored bidder for Toshiba memory chip business because it is too close to China.

Apparently the Japanese government has told Tosh that flogging its flash business to China would be opposed because it means the transference of key technology.

Foxconn has plants in China, and the Japanese fear that putting the tech close to the Chinese would result in the tech leaking out due to industrial espionage and internal corruption. more