Toshiba Rohm: The latest partnership is what the Japanese industry ministry has hoped for out of concerns that the country s power chip industry is too fragmented to catch up with industry giant Infineon Technologies AG.
Toshiba and Rohm will receive subsidies of about 120 billion yen to 130 billion yen from the Japanese government designed to help promote the domestic semiconductor industry, said the sources, who declined to be identified as the matter is private.