Month: November 2013
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TowerJazz to acquire three of Panasonic’s semiconductor fabs (Nikkei headline)
TowerJazz acquires three of Panasonic’s large written off wafer fabs for around US$ 100 million Massive market entry to Japan for TowerJazz Nikkei (the world’s biggest business daily, see our J-Media report) reported as their top headline yesterday, that TowerJazz is planning to acquire interests in three of Panasonic’s reportedly largely written-off semiconductor fabs valued…
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SIM free iPhone Japan: officially on sale by Apple in the online Apple store
SIM free iphone japan finally arrive in Japan – directly sold by Apple. SIM-lock free iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c are now officially sold via the Japanese section of the official Apple.com webstore. It has been official policy recommendation (not regulation) by Japan’s General Affairs Ministry (総務省) for Japan’s mobile operators to sell SIM-free mobile…