On May 16, Japanese foundry startup Rapidus announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with American RISC-V architecture chip design company, Esperanto. The two sides will collaborate on the research and development of AI semiconductors for data centers, aiming to jointly develop l...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has planned to build two fabs in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Kumamoto's newly appointed governor, Takashi Kimura, who took office in April, stated in an report from Bloomberg on May 11th that he would spare no effort to persuade TSMC to establish a ...

The South Korean government is said to be planning to introduce a comprehensive chip investment and research support plan, surpassing KRW 10 trillion (roughly USD 7.3 billion) in scale, to enhance its position in the critical semiconductor industry, as per a report from Economic Daily News. Accor...

According to a report from Nikkei News, US chip giant Intel will join forces with 14 Japanese companies to develop automation technology for "backend" semiconductor processes such as packaging. The aim is said to achieve automation by 2028, highlighting efforts by both the US and Japan to collaborat...

Japan is reportedly planning to expand export restrictions on four technologies related to semiconductors or quantum computing, as per a report from Bloomberg. This move is said to represent the latest initiative in global efforts to control the transfer of strategic technologies. The same report...