Japanese microchip maker Renesas Electronics employs about 42,000 people worldwide
This file photo shows employees of Japan's microprocessor maker Renesas Electronics working at the company's Naka wafer factory in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki prefecture, in 2011. Renesas plans to cut 6,000 jobs, or about 15 percent of its workforce, as it struggles to turn a profit, Japan's biggest daily reported on Tuesday.