Japan's Toshiba Corporation and NEC Corporation began agreement, to be the cause of integration of both the semiconductor sector

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.