Fujitsu is planing to sell its main fab, says reports

Published:2012/7/30 20:35:00 Author:Ecco From:SeekIC

It is reported that Japan’s Fujitsu Ltd. is planing to sell its main wafer fab to foundry chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. The wafer fab in Mie prefecture makes image processing chips and processors for supercomputers. However, according to Wall Street Journal , a spokesperson from TSMC said the company has no plans to buy any off shore wafer fabs.

According to reports in May, Renesas had tried to persuade TSMC to acquire a system-chip fab in Yamagata as part of a deal to take on increased foundry work for Renesas. But earlier this month Morris Chang, chairman and CEO of TSMC, was reported saying that the foundry had no intention of acquiring the Renesas fab.

Generally speaking, the policy of TSMC is to concentrate wafer fabs together at a couple of sites in Taiwan although it does operate fabs in mainland China and the United States and has a joint venture fab in Singapore.

It was also reported earlier this year that discussions were taking place about Fujitsu, Panasonic and Renesas merging their system-chip operations. However, nothing has happened subsequently about the merging.

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