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...Tsinghua Unigroup had brought in Yukio Sakamoto, the former chief executive of Japan’s Elpida Memory, to help build up the company’s capabilities in dynamic random-access memory (Dram), a segment dominated...
...This is evident in a scathing critique in USA Today, written by Tariq Fancy, a former head of sustainable investing at BlackRock....
...This was at Disney California Adventure, a newish sister park next door, where the Monsters, Inc. gang and other Pixar characters have taken up residence....
...In the cut-throat US market it has responded by trying (and failing) to merge subsidiary Sprint with T-Mobile USA....
...“The interests of Toshiba, its creditors and the government are not aligned,” says Yukio Sakamoto, former chief executive of Elpida Memory, a Japanese chipmaker that was bought by a US rival....
...Mr Son also confirmed SoftBank has been consulted by Foxconn about a bid for Toshiba’s flash memory business....
...They can no longer invest to save Toshiba alone,” says Yukio Sakamoto, former chief executive of Elpida Memory, the bankrupt Japanese chipmaker later acquired by Micron Technology....
...They are not nationalists who stir up dark memories of purges, pogroms, the 1930s, Latin-American strongmen or central African dictators....
...In 2012, Micron bought Elpida, capping a process that brought the number of big competitors in D-Ram and Nand flash memory from a dozen or so to five. The result was dramatic....
...US Memories Inc may sound like a greeting-card company....
...Nand (the sort of memory chip used in phones) was particularly strong, with volume growth of a quarter....
...Elpida Memory filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012 and was sold to Micron Technology....
...Micron acquired Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Elpida Memory in 2013, helping to drive a wave of consolidation....
...In 2012 Elpida, Japan’s sole remaining memory chip maker, sought bankruptcy protection....
...Elpida, once Japan’s biggest memory chipmaker but still too small to compete with market leader Samsung, became the country’s biggest manufacturing bankruptcy after two government bailouts....
...This resulted in a memory chip glut that pushed down prices and fatally undermined weaker manufacturers – notably Japan’s Elpida, which was acquired by Micron last year....
...The final step in the industry’s consolidation was instigated by Micron, which bought Japan’s Elpida – on the cheap – last year. That deal is expected to close in the current quarter....
...The company has benefited from recent improvements in the price of D-Ram memory chips, the biggest part of its business, after rivals put capacity expansion on hold, and its Japanese competitor Elpida was...
...It’s one of the most talked-about, and blogged-about, events of the year, and yet on Wednesday Gwyneth Paltrow was quoted by USA Today as saying she was “never going again.”...
...Benedict Evans of Enders Analysis says that Symbian was ideal for devices with limited memory, batteries and processors but iOS was fit for the future....
...In its statement, Nomura said that Japan Advisory could have traded after noticing that Elpida had been left out of one of its research reports on the electronics sector....
...But last year, corporate distress started to move up the chain from commoditised companies lacking a real competitive edge, such as the chipmaker Elpida Memory, to those with serious technology of their...
...The deal values Elpida at just twice Micron’s own estimate of Elpida’s earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation....
...Renesas has not made a net profit in seven years and needs fresh capital to avoid the fate of Elpida Memory, a related Japanese chipmaker that is being bought by Micron of the US after it filed for bankruptcy...
...An investment led by the state-controlled INCJ would be a big boost to Renesas, which is labouring to avoid the fate of Elpida Memory, a fellow Japanese chipmaker that filed for bankruptcy earlier this year...
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