Hitachi, 2 Others Planning Joint Computer Chip Production
Posted on: Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 12:00 CST
By Kyodo News International, Tokyo
Dec. 28--TOKYO -- Hitachi Ltd. and two other Japanese electronics firms said Wednesday they will found a company in January to prepare for joint production of next-generation computer chips.
Hitachi, Toshiba Corp. and Renesas Technology Corp. said the preparatory company will study methods and profitability for production of system large-scale integration circuits with the line width at 45 nanometers for use in digital consumer electronics. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter.
Hitachi said they will ask NEC Electronics Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and others to join the new company in a bid to build a joint chip production plant in the future.
Renesas Technology is a joint semiconductor firm owned by Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
These companies are willing to share a massive investment in computer chip production equipment to revive Japan's semiconductor industry, which has been losing out to South Korean and U.S. firms, industry sources said.
Japanese semiconductor manufacturers dominated the global market in the second half of the 1980s, but have lost ground to the fast growth of the United States' Intel Corp. and South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co.
They are now moving to share investment in development and production of new computer chips to counter U.S. and South Korean rivals.
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