In the news release " Renesas Electronics Shows Direction of Renesas Group ," announced on August 2, 2013, Renesas Electronics indicated its intention with regard to the Kochi Factory to "continue production, downsizing to be appropriate scale." However, after reexamining the present production load situation and the likely future production load, Renesas has concluded that the production load will be less than was initially anticipated and that maintaining the profitability of the Kochi Factory will be problematic.