When completed, the companies will hold about 11 percent of the global chip market.
They constitute 60 percent of the Japanese chip market.
Some analysts are seeing weakness beyond the chip market.
And he figured that the company would weather weakness in the chip market.
Will there be a 2005 recession in the chip market?
Today's report said progress had been made in opening Japan's chip market to foreign producers.
There are more than 130 companies in the customized chip market.
Its members represent about half of the worldwide chip market.
Development of this technology revolutionized the chip market and created a worldwide $3 billion industry.
Last week, Sony announced that it would enter the chip market with a $1.67 billion investment.