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...Yet it has now made its mark on the semiconductor world after acquisitive Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics paid nearly $6bn for a company that traces its roots to the “Apple Isle”....
...But Gautam Puntambekar, country executive for Bank of America, says that “when you talk about semiconductors, Malaysia is invariably part of the conversation”....
...“Figuring out how many orders are ‘double orders’ and even ‘phantom orders’ is a million-dollar question,” said Renesas Electronics CEO Hidetoshi Shibata, at the Japanese chipmaker’s most recent earnings...
...The EU drug regulator will launch an investigation next week into whether clinical trials of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine contravened ethical standards, and Japan’s national champion, Renesas Electronics...
...The companies supply global automobile chip developers such as NXP, Infineon, Renesas Electronics and STMicroelectronics. The chip shortage impacts major automakers worldwide....
...“I think it is a very good fit for Renesas.” Renesas currently generates about half of its revenue from automotive semiconductors....
...Start-up biotech firms are complaining, as are a number of semiconductor and electronics firms, clean-tech companies, data analysis groups, universities and innovators working on the “internet of things”...
...Renesas Electronics, the world’s third-largest producer of automotive microchips, is considering acquiring US rival Intersil amid a flurry of consolidation in the global semiconductor industry....
...The affected Komomoto prefecture is home to semiconductor manufacturing plants for a number of large companies, such as Sony and Renesas Electronics....
...An investment fund controlled by Japan’s government has agreed to rescue Renesas Electronics by buying a majority stake in the lossmaking chipmaker for about Y180bn ($2.2bn), people familiar with the deal...
...Renesas Electronics, the ailing Japanese semiconductor manufacturer, has been considering selling a controlling stake in itself to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for Y100bn ($1.2bn)....
...A person familiar with thinking at KKR said the US private equity fund planned to proceed with its bid for Renesas, despite talk in Japanese government and business circles about whether “Japan Inc” should...
...Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is in preliminary talks to take over Renesas Electronics of Japan through a Y100bn ($1.27bn) share purchase that would be the US private equity group’s largest Japanese investment...
...Samsung said in the memorandum that it had tried to reach an agreement with Apple out of court, “as they had been one of our most important customers” – Samsung’s semiconductor division makes hefty sums...
...Earnings from the semiconductor division are supposed to pick up the slack but chip demand is still sluggish,” says Jae Lee, an analyst at Daiwa Securities....
...A sign at the entrance directing visitors to the “Apple v Samsung” case should also say “Samsung v Apple”, one lawyer suggested....
...Renesas Electronics lost 7.9 per cent to Y291, Advantest declined 3.3 per cent to Y1,100 and SK Hynix fell 3.2 per cent to Won22,950....
...Many people were surprised to learn, as car factories from Nagoya to Alabama ground to a standstill after the earthquake and tsunami, that a single Japanese semiconductor maker, Renesas, supplies nearly...
...If something as straightforward as an opal can make such a circuitous journey, imagine what goes on with sophisticated electronics....
...TI is one of several semiconductor and electronics companies to have suffered direct damage from the earthquake....
...Electronics makers were also hurt by a slowdown in global semiconductor demand and a shortage of components brought on by the natural disasters which hit Japan in March....
...In 1988, for example, the Japanese trio of NEC, Toshiba and Hitachi were the world’s top three in semiconductors....
...Its former semiconductor business is now part of Renesas Electronics, a venture with NEC and Mitsubishi Electric; its plasma TV panel unit has been subsumed in a partnership with Panasonic; and its mobile...
...He played down chances of further big restructuring after last year’s merger of NEC Electronics, its semiconductor division, with a domestic rival to form Renesas Electronics....
...The statement means Renesas received a notice that it was cleared by the justice department, Hajime Kito, a Tokyo-based spokeswoman at Hitachi, told Bloomberg....
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