Companies like Softbank and KDDI are fighting for corporate clients.
There's a lot of good news coming out of the tech industry and that's whetting investors' appetites.
It's a positive move that shows the company is no longer an old-style family run business. This will make it easier to push through reforms that otherwise may have been avoided.
It's a positive investment that will help them increase efficiency and take the offensive. Given the size of the investments needed for these next-generation factories, it's much wiser to team up and share the financial burden.
The earnings reflect the severity of price declines. It also looks as though higher material costs also contributed to the drop.