日前,日立和三菱电机宣布将其半导体业务合并,成立了一家新的公司——Renesas技术公司。新公司的目标是,到2004年3月31日截止的商业年度中,销售额超过9亿日元,使其在全球微芯片市场的排名仅此于美国巨头英特尔公司名列第二。新公司资本500亿日元,将专攻系统大规模集成电路业务和不包括DRAM芯片在内的其它存储业务。新公司设在东京,日立和三菱电机分别拥有其55%和45%的股份,雇员27200人。由于信息技术产品的生命周期日益缩 Recently, Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric announced the merger of its semiconductor business to set up a new company - Renesas Technology. The new company’s goal is to have sales of more than 900 million yen in the business year ending March 31, 2004, ranking it second in the global microchip market only to the U.S. giant Intel Corporation. The new company, with a capital of 50 billion yen, will specialize in large-scale integrated circuit (LSI) business and other storage businesses that do not include DRAM chips. The new company is based in Tokyo, with Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric each owning 55% and 45% of the shares, employing 27,200 people. Due to the shrinking life cycle of information technology products