News - Japan trio may unite to become one giant chipmaker

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Fujitsu, Panasonic and Renesas discuss merger to turn around SoC businesses.

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Would be nice if they could offer an alternative to TSMC!

Renesas is owned by NEC, Hitachi and Mitsubishi so apart from Toshiba and Sony all Japanese semiconductor companies are merging?

I suppose with all the Korean, Taiwan and soon to be Chinese competion Considering