During the year under review, sales デュエルビッツ ボーナスe Electronics and Information
Sector rose 5.1%, to 80.2 billion yen, reflecting higher sales of
semiconductor-related products. However, the adverse effects of slumping
market prices for DRAMs led to a 16.8 billion yen operating loss.
A continued drop in market prices for DRAMs resulted in デュエルビッツ ボーナスignificant
deterioration in our business results. In response, KTI Semiconductor
Ltd., デュエルビッツ ボーナスubsidiary that manufactures semiconductor products, worked to
improve its cost efficiency. However, these efforts failed to compensate
for the sharp decline in DRAM prices, which adversely affected KTI's
performance for the fiscal year.
To improve KTI's competitiveness and performance, we recently reached a
basic agreement to transfer Texas Instruments Incorporated's equity share
デュエルビッツ ボーナスe company to Micron Technology, Inc. The combination of Micron's
advanced process technology and KTI's world-class production technology
should enable the joint venture to produce memory semiconductors that
offer the world's highest levels of performance, quality, and cost
competitiveness. デュエルビッツ ボーナスe coming fiscal year, KTI will begin a new phase of
its operations as a major producer of memory chips.
Genesis Technology Inc., デュエルビッツ ボーナスubsidiary engaged in integrated circuit
(IC) testing, recorded デュエルビッツ ボーナスteady expansion in its business in fiscal 1997.
The company aims to continue increasing its profitability by raising
productivity.
Our LSI Center, which handles semiconductor sales, has shifted the
focus of its business strategy away from sales of memory chips toward
providing solutions, primarily in digital signal processors (DSP). This
move has enabled the LSI Center to improve its profitability. The LSI
Center will work to provide customers with optimal and efficient
solutions, focusing on such leading edge-technologies as CDMA digital
technology, which is attracting attention for its application in
next-generation portable phones, and TwinVQ, a high sound quality
compression technology.
Markets for information systems have been growing steadily. Withデュエルビッツ ボーナスis
field, we have shifted the focus of our sales of real-time operating
systems from control-related systems to multimedia systems, which has
yielded a sharp rise in orders. Furthermore, increased government
investment for information systems and a recent surfacing of various
environmental problems has led to brisk growth in inquiries about
environment-related information systems. デュエルビッツ ボーナスis field, we are conducting
research and development that will enable us to take a more flexible
approach to costs as we aim to enhance our profitability.
Kobelco Systems Corporation has been recording steady growth in its
system solution business along with the trend toward open and integrated
systems.
デュエルビッツ ボーナスe coming fiscal year, we will strive to use the significant
structural changes taking place デュエルビッツ ボーナスe semiconductor industry as an
opportunity for achieving further growth. |