Dow Chemical's acquisition of Rohm and Haas in April has left it labouring under heavy debts.
Additionally, Dow is in the process of addressing the heavy debt load taken on to fund the April 2009 purchase of Rohm and Haas.
Like Murata's prototype, the Rohm flavor uses square electrodes instead of the coils that you'll find in traditional wireless power solutions, like Qi.
ENGADGET: Rohm Wireless Power Transmission system hands-on (video)
In another takeover story, Dow Chemical informed Rohm and Haas it does not intend to complete its acquisition of the company by Tuesday's scheduled closing date.
If Mr Eller and Ms Edstrom think that almost everything that happens at Microsoft is a serendipitous accident, Wendy Goldman Rohm is of the opposite persuasion.
Freund, 49, a truck driver and jewelry store owner, says he never gave the Rohm and Haas plant a second thought until Joanne Branham came back to town.
Most semiconductor makers have been savaged by falling prices, but Rohm, the world's largest maker of specialist microchips, has maintained margins by adding extra functions to its devices.
Wireless power demos abound at CEATEC, and Rohm Semiconductor had their own variant on hand with a complete mix of direct-draw gadgets, along with the omnipresent charging iPhone 4 (or was it a 4S?).
ENGADGET: Rohm Wireless Power Transmission system hands-on (video)
Rohm's Wireless Power Transmission system also allows you to charge or power devices by placing them anywhere on the pad, rather than directly over charging positions, and it supports much greater transmission, with one prototype outputting up to 100 watts.
ENGADGET: Rohm Wireless Power Transmission system hands-on (video)
While NEC isn't making any promises for the near future just yet, Rohm says that it'll begin shipping its first custom ICs in the second half of this year, and that the first products using them could start showing up by the end of 2009.
ENGADGET: Integrated circuits with no standby power could be in use by year's end
There's certainly no shortage of companies working to make electronics of all sorts more energy efficient, but NEC and Rohm Co now say that they're on the verge of a breakthrough that could change things in a big way, and we could possibly see it in "practical use" by the end of this year.
ENGADGET: Integrated circuits with no standby power could be in use by year's end
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