Japan-based semiconductor firm Renesas — one of the world’s largest supplier of chips for the automotive industry — is scooping up U.S. chip company IDT in a $6.7 billion deal that
Like other chipmakers, Japan’s Renesas is putting focus on an emerging industry: autonomous cars. The Tokyo-based company announced the R-Car Consortium at a trade fair in the city this week, hi
Apple is looking to acquire a 55 percent stake in a joint venture between Sharp and Taiwanese company Powerchip formed to develop chips for use in smartphone displays, according to a new report by Jap
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<a href="http://search.beta.techcrunch.com/query.php?s=USB+3.0">USB 3.0</a> is slowly but surely finding its
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If you look at the batches of new cell phones Japan's leading mobile carriers have been presenting <a href="http
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Is the electronics industry recovering from the recession? If you ask some of Japan's biggest t
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Consolidation is the Japanese answer to the current economic crisis, especially in the technology sector. The
The days for Japan’s mobile digital TV standard One-Seg may be counted Renesas, the world’s biggest manufacturer of microcontrollers, is planning to unveil a processor that will make it po