https://www.semiconportal.com/en/ ja Copyright 2010 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:43:39 +0900 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification In pursuit of more agile management, Panasonic Corp. announced it will completely absorb Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. and Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd. and will acquire these two listed subsidiaries through takeover bids. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100730-panasonic-tob-sanyo-panasonic-electric-works.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100730-panasonic-tob-sanyo-panasonic-electric-works.html Business Main News News Center Panasonic Panasonic Electric Works Sanyo absorption Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:43:39 +0900 CEATEC Japan 2010, Japan's largest electronics show, will be held from October 5 to 9 at Makuhari, in the suburbs of Tokyo. Hit by not only the global recession but also by a typhoon that struck bang in the middle of last year's show, the event ended up with 150,000 visitors, about 3/4 of the previous year's attendance. For this year, the CEATEC organizer is expecting about 200,000 visitors, the same level as that of the peak year of 2007. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100727-ceatec.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100727-ceatec.html Business Main News News Center CEATEC IEICE smart grids Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:29:44 +0900 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) announced its wafer-bonding machine has bonded SiC wafers and GaN wafers with silicon wafers at room temperature for the first time in the industry. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/new-product/machinery-equipment/100726-mhi-wafer-bonding-sic-gan-sapphire.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/new-product/machinery-equipment/100726-mhi-wafer-bonding-sic-gan-sapphire.html Machinery & Equipment New Products GaN MHI Mitsubishi Heavy Industries SiC bonding sapphire Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:11:17 +0900 Elpida Memory, Inc. has settled a pending diversification into the flash memory business by forming an alliance with Spansion Inc., which includes joint development of NAND technology and products and foundry services for the US company. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100723-elpida-spansion-flash-nand-nor-memory.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100723-elpida-spansion-flash-nand-nor-memory.html Business Main News News Center Elpida NAND NOR Spansion flash Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:04:20 +0900 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. announced they will develop and propose a high-speed NAND flash memory interface, the toggle DDR (double data rate) 2.0, which will support a maximum 400 megabit-per-second (Mbps) data transmission, as an industry standard. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/100722-samsung-toshiba-nand-inerface-toggle-ddr-2.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/100722-samsung-toshiba-nand-inerface-toggle-ddr-2.html News Center News Flash Technology NAND Samsung Toshiba interface toggle DDR 2.0 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:32:31 +0900 The Committee of High-purity Silicon, a wafer industry organization consisting of the world's major wafer manufacturers, revised the forecast of this year's single-crystal wafer production in Japan from 8,265 tons issued last February to 8,624 tons, reflecting brisk production in the first half of this year. Accordingly, production is expected to increase 35.9% from 2009, 5.9 percentage points up from 30% in the February forecast. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100721-silicon-wafer-committee.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100721-silicon-wafer-committee.html Business Main News News Center High-purity Silicon production wafer Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:25:58 +0900 Sony Corp. and Tohoku University have jointly developed a combination of a blue-violet semiconductor laser and a semiconductor amplifier and succeeded in emitting 405nm pulsed laser with the peak output of 100W, which is more than a hundred times the highest peak output of any conventional blue-violet semiconductor laser. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/100720-sony-tohoku-university-blue-violet-laser-100w.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/100720-sony-tohoku-university-blue-violet-laser-100w.html News Center News Flash Technology 100W Sony Tohoku University blue-violet laser optical amplifier output Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:34:17 +0900 The long-rumored sale of the semiconductor unit of Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. has been settled with ON Semiconductor Corp. The US company will purchase the unit for US$367 million by the end of this year. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100716-sanyo-semiconductor-sale-onsemiconductor.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100716-sanyo-semiconductor-sale-onsemiconductor.html Business Main News News Center On Semiconductor Sanyo sale semiconductor Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:11:57 +0900 Toshiba Corp. and SanDisk have jointly announced that SanDisk will participate in the operation of Toshiba's new NAND fab, whose construction has just started, just as SanDisk has been partnering Toshiba for the NAND fabs currently in operation. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/100714-toshiba-yokkaichi-fab5-sandisk.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/100714-toshiba-yokkaichi-fab5-sandisk.html Business News Center News Flash Fab 5 NAND SanDisk Toshiba Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:16:49 +0900 Targeting China, which is expected to become the world's largest TV market this year, Toshiba Corp. announced the establishment of a joint venture sales company, Toshiba Visual Products (China) Co., Ltd., with TCL Corp., one of China's leading consumer electronics manufacturers. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/toshiba-to-form-tv-sales-jv-in.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/toshiba-to-form-tv-sales-jv-in.html Business News Center News Flash China JV LCD TV TCL Toshiba Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:37:51 +0900 ST Microelectronics' insufficient supply of custom chips to Hitachi, Ltd. has triggered the halting of production at four car plants of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. in Japan, media reported. Hitachi has been assembling engine control units (ECUs) for Nissan using ST Micro's chip but supply of the chip fell short of the contracted amount, according to reports. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/100714-hitachi-st-microelectronics-nissan-shortage.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/100714-hitachi-st-microelectronics-nissan-shortage.html Business News Center News Flash Hitachi Nissan ST Microelectronics Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:07:05 +0900 Hitachi, Ltd. and KDDI Corp. announced they have jointly developed a mobile phone with an RFID read/write function and intend to start marketing next year, initially aiming at business use. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100712-hitachi-kddi-rfid-mobile-phone.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100712-hitachi-kddi-rfid-mobile-phone.html Main News News Center Technology Hitachi KDDI RFID UHF mobile phones Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:05:23 +0900 Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. and Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., the two largest printing companies in Japan, have proposed establishing the Association for E-publishing Business Solution, taking the initiative in preparing e-book production and distribution infrastructure. The two companies are organizing the association's inaugural meeting scheduled for July 27. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/100709-dnp-toppan-e-book-assoiation.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/100709-dnp-toppan-e-book-assoiation.html Business News Center News Flash DNP Toppan association e-book Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:30:21 +0900 Aiming to launch a home-use energy storage systems business, Panasonic Corp. has started field testing a combination of solar panel modules and storage battery systems, employing 18650 lithium-ion battery cells, at its offices. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/100708-panasonic-sanyo-18650-solar.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/news-flash/100708-panasonic-sanyo-18650-solar.html Business News Center News Flash 18650 Panasonic Sanyo lithium-ion solar cell storage Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:35:43 +0900 The rationale of Renesas Electronics Corp.'s US$200 million deal with Nokia is that the Finnish company's proven modem technology will be Renesas's passport to the global mobile communication chip market. By exploiting this advantage, Renesas aims to capture a third of the global LTE chip market while expanding its mobile LSI business fourfold to 400 billion yen (US$4 billion*) by fiscal 2015 from the fiscal 2009 level. https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100707-update-renesas-nokia-wireless-modem-acquisition.html https://www.semiconportal.com/en/archive/news/main-news/100707-update-renesas-nokia-wireless-modem-acquisition.html Business Main News News Center Nokia Renesas acquisition wireless modem Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:16:45 +0900