Japan's semiconductor industry will implement a major restructuring in 2007 put into operation

Hitachi announced, Toshiba, specializing in the production of semiconductor Renesas company before the restructuring will begin to study the Japanese semiconductor industry in January 2006, plans to jointly set up the production of the next generation of semiconductor company, and strive for production since 2007.

It is understood that the three companies also plans to invite the Japanese electronics and electronics and Panasonic together to participate in joint production, in order to improve the competitiveness of the Japanese semiconductor industry.

The newly formed company mainly produces digital household appliances using 45 nanometer scale system integrated circuit, the investment scale is about 100 billion yen. This is Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturers for the first large-scale horizontal joint.