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Japan's Toshiba Corporation and NEC Corporation began agreement, to be the cause
of integration of both the semiconductor sector
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jihsinco on 02 February, 2009 12:23:00
 
Japanese Economic News (January 30)
One, according to Nikkei News reported on the 29th of this month, Toshiba's
semiconductor business is planning to its large-scale integrated circuit (LSI)
the cause of separate, with the merger of NEC's semiconductor subsidiary. In
addition, NEC is also in negotiations with Fujitsu to review both the
possibility of integration of semiconductor business. At the same time by the
global recession, the Japanese semiconductor companies are a significant
deterioration of performance, the Japanese semiconductor industry is likely to
re-integrate a new wave of restructuring. This integration, if successful, will
be following the Japanese semiconductor April 2003 Hitachi and Mitsubishi
Electric's LSI utility mergers, the establishment of Renesas Technology (Renesas
Technology) company after 6 years of large-scale reorganization again.
Second, Toshiba published accounts on the 29th shows that the proposed cause
for the semiconductor division of the case. At present, the cause of the
semiconductor is divided into 3 broad categories, namely: the production of
mobile phones used in flash memory industry, the production of digital home
appliances used in large-scale integrated circuit industries, as well as the
suppression of individual power semiconductor industry; the company plans to
large-scale integration integrated circuits and semiconductor separate
individual, with the merger integration with the industry. In fact, Toshiba
Corporation since last fall since the beginning of consultations with the NEC,
at present more or less 2 companies in 2005 after an agreement to jointly
develop the first end of the cause of integrated circuit technology for the
merger object.
Third, on the other hand, NEC and Fujitsu also consult the parties interested
in the semiconductor division of NEC ELECTRONICS FUJITSU MICROELECTRONICS
companies and companies together. 3 large companies are expected to the future
of the semiconductor may be a common cause together, by the expansion of
production scale, improve production, to improve earnings.
Fourth, the semiconductor industry in the late 1980s, the world's top 10 big
companies, the Japanese companies on the possession of 5 seats. After being in
Taiwan, South Korea to catch up on the threat, Japanese companies have to
integrate. In 1999, Hitachi and NEC's memory business unit merged Elpida
(ELPIDA) company. At present, Japan's domestic semiconductor production, almost
on the Toshiba, Renesas Technology, NEC, Fujitsu and Elpida 5 vendors. This
time, by the global downturn, the maker of the impact of the deterioration in
performance, not only in Japan once again brewing integration, the overseas
context, Elpida (ELPIDA) company and the integration of Taiwan's semiconductor
manufacturers, has also started to plan.