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Japan Display avoided Apple disaster
The company was formed out of a merger of the small panel divisions of Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba last April. It did not mention Apple by name, but it is the company's biggest customer. -
Korean FTC rakes in record fines
Price fixing has increased in Korea as firms search for ways to make bigger profits. This year alone, Hitachi, HP and AUO have been fined for allegedly jumping into bed with their friends and manipulating LCD and other technology prices. -
Hitachi cuts out making chips
The Japanese company which sounds like a sneeze, Hitachi, has decided that it is not worth making chips any more. -
Renesas gets government bailout
Renesas, which has been a big name in providing chips for cars, was formed from the struggling chip divisions of its major shareholding companies Hitachi, Mitsubishi and NEC. Needless to say, piling all that amount of hurt under one roof did make people wonder. -
Western Digital loses drive as profits dry up
First-quarter net profit more than doubled to $519 million thanks to the company's acquisition of Hitachi's hard-disk drive business earlier this year. -
Renesas might be saved by Toyota and Japan
It looks like the plan may be delivered to Renesas's major shareholders NEC, Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric next month and would be tied up by the end of the year. -
IBM claims spintronics breakthrough
Devices using spintronics are still a long way off. Various firms such as Hitachi have also been developing spintronics technology, but there are stumbling blocks. -
Mitsubishi bails out Renesas
Renesas was the product of successive mergers of the chip divisions of its major shareholders Mitsubishi, Hitachi and NEC. The company said that it will reduce its workforce by 12 percent and halve the number of Japanese plants. -
Renesas axes 12 percent of its staff
Renesas was created by merging the chip divisions of major shareholders Mitsubishi, Hitachi and NEC. It said that the job cuts would save the company $541.97 million a year. -
LSI SandForce demos 19nm NAND in working SSD
The 24GB drive is based on Intel 25nm chips and it was paired up with a Hitachi 250GB hard drive. -
Intel says open source fundamental to its cloud growth
Intel wants ODMs in Taiwan to develop microservers at a very targeted space. Supermicro, Tyan, Dell, NEC, Quanta and Hitachi are all delivering Intel based micro servers. -
Renesas goes cap in hand to shareholders
Japan's ailing chipmaker Renesas is going cap in hand to its major shareholders, like the company which sounds like a sneeze, Hitachi. -
Renesas shares plummet
However, currently the plans are just talk, with sources telling Reuters that the company must get approval from its main shareholders, which include members from Hitachi, Mitsubishi and NEC. The trio of companies are said to hold more than 90 percent of Renesas shares. -
Toshiba gives up on Japanese tellies
According to Reuters, it is the second manufacturer to walk away from Japan. The company which sounds like a sneeze, Hitachi also walked away citing a strong yen. -
Sony, Panasonic's TV businesses in crisis
“Too much of their costs are in yen," Raikes said. "It is a problem for Japan inc, just look at the problems for most of the Japanese consumer electronics companies. -
Hitachi exec pays up for price fixing
An executive who worked for the company which sounds like a sneeze, with Hitachi-LG Data Storage, has agreed to plead guilty and serve a prison sentence for price fixing. -
Email could die in 10 years, Hitachi Data Systems says
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has introduced its HUS (Hitachi Unified Storage) family of products and claimed that it now offers the entire spectrum of integrated storage devices covering the largest to the smallest enterprise. -
Sony plans 10,000 job cuts
According to the sources, Sony plans to either shed or spin off businesses it doesn't think are central to the company. For example, it will sell its chemical products busiess to the Development Bank of Japan, the WSJ reports.
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