Stock quotes Toshiba rushed up against the backdrop of rumors that the Japanese vendor was determined with the buyer for its semiconductor unit, reports The Financial Times.

Growth Toshiba shares began after the Japanese edition of Asahi reported that the American chipmaker Broadcom is close to obtaining exclusive rights in the auction for the Toshiba business for the production of NAND flash memory chips.

It is also noted that in June Toshiba launched the final round of negotiations with Broadcom, which secured the support of the American investment fund Silver Lake.

The struggle for the right to purchase a Toshiba division is serious.

On the eve of the chairman of the board of directors Foxconn Terry Gou (Terry Gou) in an interview with Nikkei said that his company teamed up with Apple and Amazon for a joint proposal to acquire the Toshiba Memory division. Mr. Gough refused to specify the amount of the proposed investment from companies, but earlier in the media reported that Foxconn is ready to pay up to 3 trillion yen ($ 27.36 billion).

On Tuesday, June 6, Toshiba shares went up by 2.1%, but during the morning trading the growth reached 4.2%. As a result, Toshiba securities showed the third best result in the Japanese index Nikkei 225, which includes the largest companies of the Land of the Rising Sun.