Japan’s Power Chip Consolidation Talks Signal Push for Scale in Strategic Semiconductors
Toshiba says it will begin negotiations with Mitsubishi Electric and Rohm to merge their power semiconductor businesses, a move that local media suggest could create the world’s second-largest power chip group. The talks align with Japan’s broader effort to expand domestic semiconductor output, including a government target to lift domestically produced microchip sales to 40 trillion yen by 2040 versus about 5 trillion yen in 2020.