Who Founded Murata?

Under Nakajima, Murata has worked to reduce its historical dependence on smartphone-cycle demand by building out higher-reliability component lines for electric vehicles and data-center power applications, markets that carry longer design-in cycles and more stable demand than consumer electronics. He has also had to navigate a persistent slowdown in smartphone unit volumes globally, a market that historically drove the majority of Murata's MLCC demand, making the pivot toward automotive and data-center customers a matter of long-term revenue stability rather than simple diversification. He has also overseen expanded capital investment in Southeast Asian manufacturing sites, part of a broader effort across Japanese electronics makers to reduce single-country manufacturing concentration following pandemic-era supply disruptions.