Toshiba, Fujitsu and NEC Electronics could jointly develop chips

Toshiba, Fujitsu and NEC Electronics could jointly develop chips

Japanese companies Toshiba, Fujitsu and NEC Electronics are currently in talks with each other to decide on a new venture to develop chips.

The three companies are currently discussing possible plans to jointly develop advanced 32-nanometer chips to better keep up with rivals.

These chips could be used in electronic devices like flat TVs and other high-power home electronics as early as 2010.

Macquarie analyst Yoshihiro Shimada had this to say on this report: “This is not enough. They shouldn’t wait until 2010. They also need to spell out how their co-developed technologies can be accepted in a market where TSMC and IBM have set de-facto standards.”

Samsung Electronics, IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Infineon Technologies and Freescale Semiconductor have already announced their plans to start work on manufacturing 32-nanometer chips.