Offloading is the new merger for today’s electronic manufacturers and it is TSMC that is reaping the benefit.  They already handle AMD’s 40nm process chips, at least until Global Foundries finds its stride, as well as working with Intel on developing a ‘System on a Chip’, which will be a smaller, less power hungry Atom.  Now it is Fujitsu’s turn, as they are passing at least some, but quite possibly all, of their chip manufacturing to TSMC.  As well They are selling off their HDD business to Toshiba, a merger mimicking IBM’s glomming onto Hitachi.  Read more at El Reg.

“Fujitsu has joined the parade of chip-design firms that are passing off all or part of their manufacturing to the giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).

The Japanese megaconglomerate is struggling to put its financial house in order. Earlier this month, for example, it cut contractors’ pay by 15 percent. And on Thursday, it announced that it would further cut costs by outsourcing its system chips to TSMC and working with that company to design next-generation chips.”

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