July 21 news , Yamaguchi , president of NEC Electronics pure history recently told the " Financial Times" interview that the semiconductor industry has to spend the winter , but still have 2-3 years to return to normal levels. Yamaguchi said pure history , due to previous hit too deep , it should be 2-3 years back appeared relatively stable temperature . Unless the spending power of real recovery , otherwise the whole industry is still hard to return to the previous level. Depending on the expected Yamaguchi believe that at least 2-3 years , the semiconductor industry will return to normal levels. Since Intel is promising, so part of the technology sector stocks soaring last week , when Yamaguchi ’s remarks should be cooled some of the overly optimistic view. Yamaguchi said , NEC Electronics current capacity utilization rate of 65 %, higher than the 40 percent from January to March this year , but the revenue part of the heyday of the 70% . NEC Electronics has announced the acquisition of Renesas Technologies in April of this year, after the completion of the restructuring , NEC Electronics will become the world’s third largest chip maker . Yamaguchi is expected before the end of July this year to release more details, such as stock option exchange rate of the two companies , headquarters locations and departments abolition plans. Yamaguchi said the administration hopes to make the best decision from top to bottom . The new company will also continue to increase R & D costs, and continued investment in the chip industry. |