While Fujitsu announced in early October that it would co-develop AI chips with NVIDIA to power Japan’s data centers by 2030, new details have now surfaced. According to Nikkei XTECH, the company is reportedly considering Rapidus as a potential manufacturing partner for its 1.4nm-class CPUs design...

While Japan’s Rapidus reached a major milestone in July, announcing that prototyping for its 2nm gate-all-around (GAA) chips has begun at the IIM-1 foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido, CEO Atsuyoshi Koike, according to Hokkaido Shimbun, identifies U.S. firms IBM and chip-design startup Tenstorrent as the...

According to Wccftech, citing sources, Rapidus is preparing its cutting-edge 2nm node, named “2HP,” which is expected to deliver logic density on par with TSMC’s N2 and, more notably, well ahead of Intel’s 18A. Rapidus 2HP is reported to reach a logic density of 237.31 MTr/mm², nearly matc...

A fire at Japanese industrial gas maker Kanto Denka Kogyo’s nitrogen trifluoride operations is raising alarms over semiconductor supply chain disruptions, as the company supplies major clients including TSMC, Samsung, Micron, and Japan’s Kioxia, Sony, and Rapidus—highlighting the potentially w...

Just before TSMC’s 2nm node ramps up mass production in 2H25, the foundry fired multiple employees and launched legal action over suspected leaks of sensitive data. According to Economic Daily News and Liberty Times, the case is highly sensitive—not only because it involves the world’s most ad...