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Renesas to have massive layoff
Amid a plan to
embrace foundries, Japan's Renesas Electronics Corp. plans to cut nearly
10 percent of its workforce, or about 5,000 jobs, by year's end,
according to Reuters, which cited Nikkei as its source.
Renesas seeks to become profitable by 2011.
Completing a merger transaction between the former NEC Electronics Corp. and Renesas Technology Corp., the new combined entity--Renesas Electronics Corp.--commenced business operations on April 1.
Renesas (Tokyo) will be a publically traded company in Japan. When combined, the company had $10.212 billion in sales in 2009, making it the world's third largest chip maker, next to Intel Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Still, there is a lot of work to be done at Renesas. The company must integrate the operations of NEC Electronics and the old Renesas. That's no small task. And many of the tough decisions have yet to be made.
- Renesas targeting mobile and multimedia applications for strategic growth
- Renesas Electronics and SoftAtHome join efforts on Hybrid IPTV/Terrestrial, Satellite and OTT STBs
- Dual core MCUs target factory automation
- MSC offers high-temperature MOSFETs in 8-pin HSON package
- MSC adds 78 microcontrollers from Renesas Electronics to its product portfolio
- Dialog PMIC and audio codec supports Renesas reference platform for HD video enabled mobile devices
- Renesas assigns patents to Acacia for licensing
- Renesas RX family gains from software compatibility
- Seven power MOSFETs target compact vehicle electronic control units
- Renesas adds support for Microsoft .NET on SH-2/SH-2A
- Intel to purchase Infineon's Wireless Solutions Business in USD 1.4 billion cash transaction
- A4 chip drives AppleTV, iPod Touch
- AMD unveils two new x86 cores
- Apple iPad upgrade likely to get STMicro gyro
- ARM, in servers push, describes the Cortex-A15 CPU
- Decision time looms for hard drive makers
- Toshiba spins 2.5 Tbit hard disk
- IBM claims fastest MPU
- Russian chipmaker calls for import ban
- Marvell buys into broadband-over-power
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