OSAKA/TAIPEI -- Panasonic will sell its loss-making semiconductor business to Taiwan's Nuvoton Technology, Nikkei has learned, leaving an industry that it first entered in 1952 and which now faces headwinds from the U.S.-China trade war.
The sale will close a chapter in Japan's transition from a chipmaking powerhouse in the 1980s and '90s to a supplier of equipment and materials to rising South Korean and Taiwanese players.
