According to a report by Nikkei, Japanese chip manufacturer Rapidus plans to establish a fully automated production line using robots and AI in northern Japan to produce 2nm chips for advanced AI applications, with mass production anticipated as early as 2027. Reportedly, Rapidus claims that aut...

Japanese semiconductor equipment maker Tokyo Electron (TEL) has raised its profit forecast for the fiscal year 2024 (ending March 2025), expecting an operating profit of JPY 627 billion (approximately USD 4.3 billion), an 8% increase from its previous guidance. Tokyo Electron contributed the str...

On August 8th, Japan experienced a magnitude 7.1 earthquake with the epicenter located off the coast of Kyushu, in the sea east of Miyazaki Prefecture, at a focal depth of 30 kilometers. TSMC's Kumamoto plant (JASM), located in Kumamoto Prefecture, experienced a seismic intensity scale of level 4....

According to a report from Nikkei on August 5, RS Technologies, a global giant in recycled wafers, has announced that due to increased orders, it will expand the monthly production capacity of its Japanese and Taiwanese plants to 580,000 wafers by 2024. Despite the Japanese plant operating at ful...

According to STDaily citing a recent report on the official website of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan announced that, the university has designed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that surpasses the standard boundary of semiconducto...