Posted on 11/25/2023 4:54:58 AM PST by FarCenter
Developments at Rapidus and TSMC highlight Japan’s attempt to advance to the leading edge of semiconductor manufacturing. It is a comprehensive effort devoid of the financial, social and political difficulties seen in Germany, the US and China.
Rapidus, Japan’s advanced semiconductor production venture, will work on 1nm integrated circuit design with the University of Tokyo and the CEA-Leti research institute of France, according to Japanese media reports.
This should put it on a process technology development track converging with Intel.
TSMC, Taiwan’s industry-leading semiconductor foundry, is reported to be considering 3nm production in Kumamoto on Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu. This points to step-by-step progress toward the ability to fabricate smartphone and AI processors.
By the end of this decade, these projects should give Japan some of the world’s most advanced semiconductor production facilities worldwide, filling a large gap in its manufacturing capability and greatly increasing the security of its electronics supply chain.
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Thank God. Japan makes the world’s most wondrous automobiles and now it will make chips for the free world. I love it. China and its slave labor be damned.
You need to read a little history about Japan. The USA should be the vanguard of any computer technology, and keep it that way.
The real question: Does this mean we can walk away from Taiwan?
Should, but for some reason we aren’t.
Not anymore we shouldn’t. The reasons from WW2 served their purpose. Holding them back now only strengthens China. I say let countries like Japan and S.Korea build up against China.
Competition, honest competition, is good.
Early in my semiconductor career I lost two jobs to Japanese competition.
They beat us fair and square at our own game, playing by our rules. I was impressed.
From your keyboard...
That would be as stupid as running away from a war we were winning and abandoning billions of dollars worth of our best military equipment, forsaking our local allies and leaving records of their names, descriptions, and home addresses!
“… Rapidus, Japan’s advanced semiconductor production venture, will work on 1nm integrated circuit design…”
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Quite an ambitious target. I wish them success.
It is also an interesting Geopolitical development.
Taiwan/Formosa was always a rarely administered sometimes abandoned sometimes foreign conqured outpost in the imperial China realm, and always never developed much, until it was occupied by Japan in 1895, and Japan started the first widespread economic and industrial development of the island.
1nm? I didn’t realize we were at that point yet.
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