Murata to mass-produce all-solid-state batteries in fall

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Murata is changing its battery strategy by forgoing sales to smartphone makers in favor of those to wearable producers.

SHUNTARO FUKUTOMI, Nikkei staff writer

KYOTO -- Murata Manufacturing will begin mass-producing all-solid-state batteries in the months ahead and supply the ultrasafe, next-generation power packs to makers of earphones and other wearables as it forgoes short-term profit and attempts to carve out a niche for itself in a cutthroat industry.

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