Japan has approved $6.8 billion in funding for domestic semiconductor investment, aiming to regain its position in the global semiconductor market. Japanese equipment companies, including Disco and ...

A Japanese government council has been formed to bolster the country's economic security. It has hammered out priority ...

The Japan arm of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. will build a new $13.9 billion wafer fabrication plant in Kumamoto Prefecture.

July 18, 2025, marked a historic milestone for Japan’s semiconductor industry. Rapidus, a company aiming to mass-produce cutting-edge semiconductors, announced that it had successfully prototyped a ...

Japan’s ruling party aims to secure roughly ¥1 trillion ($6.5 billion) per year to keep supporting the nation’s semiconductor ...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (NYSE:TSM) CEO C.C. Wei blamed traffic jams for delays in expanding its base in southwest Japan, hampering the progress of its Tokyo signature chipmaking project.

The semiconductor market is one of the sectors that power the tech industry. Taiwan, the US, and South Korea are the countries that come first to mind when we hear the word "microchip." However, Japan ...

Japans manufacturing sector contracted sharply in October, marking its fastest decline in 19 months as global demand in the ...

TL;DR: Rapidus, a Japanese semiconductor company, announced 2nm trial production using ASML's advanced EUV machines, potentially entering NVIDIA's supply chain. While TSMC leads in 2nm production, ...

Our increasingly online and automated lives are enabled by innovation in semiconductors. Japan’s own history with chipmaking goes back to Sony’s seminal transistor radios of the 1950s and continued on ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. At Friday’s inaugural U.S.-Japan Economic Consultative Committee, leaders from both countries discussed supply chains and emerging ...

The Japanese semiconductor industry is on a downward spiral as rival companies in Taiwan, South Korea and the U.S. made gains in chip, memory and integrated circuit sales, research firm IC Insights ...