Hitachi Instruments Shifts to New Company.Tokyo, Japan 2/22/01--Hitachi Ltd. announced that as of October 1, 2001 Hitachi Instruments Group and Hitachi's Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment will be separated from the company and merged with Nissei Sangyo to form Hitachi Advanced Technologies. In addition, the sales operation of Hitachi Medical that are related to Hitachi Instruments will be moved to the new company. Hitachi states that the reorganization is part of its effort to respond to the nanotechnology nanotechnology: see micromechanics. nanotechnology Manipulation of atoms, molecules, and materials to form structures on the scale of nanometres (billionths of a metre). market. The new company will consolidate the manufacturing, marketing and services of the three companies. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Hitachi, Hitachi Advanced Technologies will have consolidated income of 10 billion yen for fiscal year 2001. This is a bold restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). but is entirely consistent with Hitachi, Ltd.'s companywide reorganization initiative announced in late 1999. The new company provides for greater integration of once isolated businesses whose synergy The enhanced result of two or more people, groups or organizations working together. In other words, one and one equals three! It comes from the Greek "synergia," which means joint work and cooperative action. can generate growth. The emphasis on nanotechnology is completely in line with Hitachi's entrance into the microarray See micro array. microarray - A technique for performing many DNA experiments in parallel. Nothing to do with computers. market. |
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