Hitachi Japan five companies jointly set up joint chip manufacturing factory

Yesky November 19th news (November 18th, Japan Yu compile) "Yomiuri Shimbun" reported that five Japanese chip makers including Hitachi and Toshiba, have reached an agreement, agreed to set up a total value of 200 billion yen in chip manufacturing factory.

Reported that the plant will begin in 2006, may be second years to start production system LSI chip, the chip uses a wide range of 65 nm or less integrated circuit. The other three companies to participate in the agreement were NEC electronics, Matsushita Electronics Co., Ltd., as well as the Renesas Technology Corp has not yet listed. Renesas company is Hitachi Corporation and MITSUBISHI electronics company joint venture.

In September, Hitachi has said it is working with other Japanese chip makers will gradually reduce the cost and improve the competitiveness of talks, including the establishment of a joint factory. In November 18th, a Hitachi spokesman said: "the company and the industry are of the view that we should have such a public manufacturing factory. We are considering this matter, we can not disclose any details."