Japanese electronics maker, Panasonic will be substantially reduced scale of semiconductor business , including at the end of fiscal year 2014 ( prior to the end of March 2015 ) the number of employees of the semiconductor business has now 1.4 million cut to the remaining half of 7,000 people and plans the part of the plant sale .It is understood , Panasonic in China , Indonesia, Malaysia and other places have few blocks packaging and testing plant , intends to sell to the foundry took over , leading the industry believe that the domestic packaging and testing ASE ( 2311 ) took over the loudest voices .ASE September beta undertakings consolidated revenue 13.07 billion yuan , consecutive two months hit a new high , the cause of the third quarter consolidated revenue beta 37.81 billion yuan , quarter by line with the original estimate of 4.2% . As plus EMS career in September consolidated revenue reached 20.39 billion yuan , the third quarter consolidated revenue 56.748 billion yuan , are historical highs , consolidated revenue growth rate of 11.8 percent quarter. According to Japanese media reports , Panasonic semiconductor business revenue in 2007 before the financial crisis reached its peak , when the annual revenue of up to 400 billion yen or more , but the year 2012 has fallen sharply to 1,840 one hundred million yen and fell into loss and therefore will substantially reduce the semiconductor business to take the semiconductor research and development focus from TV and mobile phone and other digital home appliances , the migration of high -value-added automotive or industrial machinery and other fields. Therefore , Panasonic will be a big move for the plant downsizing , but also for overseas factories dominated areas layoffs .Panasonic Semiconductor production center mainly in Japan Hokuriku plant -based, fab mainly located in Toyama Prefecture, Japan Tonami, Toyama Prefecture Uozu, Myoko, Niigata Prefecture and other regions . Japan's overseas operations base , including Suzhou and Shanghai in mainland China , Malaysia , Singapore, Indonesia and other places with packaging and testing plant. Foreign news reports , Panasonic 's layoff plan is mainly dominated by Japanese factories overseas , while also working with Israel to start negotiations foundry TowerJazz , considering the sale of part of the plant to TowerJazz, and plans to complete the sale before the end of March next year negotiation .Analysts pointed out that Japan is IDM semiconductor business model , the major system manufacturers such as Sony, Fujitsu , there is the semiconductor business , the largest semiconductor company is Renesas (Renesas), but in recent years, mobile devices have not successfully grab orders , their own system is not as factory orders , so almost all in serious losses and had to be downsized and replaced with foundries .Industry pointed out , Panasonic has been in advanced process wafer planes with Taiwan TSMC , UMC cooperation , so in this capacity downsizing plan, should be to aggressively shut down and sold overseas packaging and testing plant , as well as mining Outsourcing mode. The packaging and testing plant in the country , the ASE with Panasonic, NEC, Renesas and other Japanese IDM factory for many years, took over the Panasonic overseas packaging and testing plant and to undertake OEM orders highest probability .
