Product category:
Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Hitachi Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 March 2002
Hitachi and Mitsubishi discuss LSI
merger
Hitachi and Mitsubishi are in discussions to integrate their system LSI businesses.
Hitachi and Mitsubishi are in discussions to integrate their system LSI businesses Both companies are examining the option of shifting their system LSI operations, which include microcontrollers, logic, analogue and discrete devices, to a new joint venture
By leveraging the respective core strengths of Hitachi's and Mitsubishi Electric's system LSI products, especially in microcontrollers, the new company will strive to become the world's top system LSI supplier, and concentrate especially on taking the foremost position in mobile, network, automotive and digital home electronics application areas.
Although specific details will be determined at a later date, the new company will form an independent and stable management structure and act as the nucleus of Hitachi's and Mitsubishi Electric's respective semiconductor organisations.
No common brand has yet been agreed.
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