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Japan approves chip development project with Taiwan s TSMC
FILE PHOTO: A logo of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) is seen at its headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan August 31, 2018. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)
01 Jun 2021 11:48AM (Updated:
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TOKYO: Japan has signed off on a US$338 million semiconductor research project to develop cutting-edge chip technology in the country with the market-leading Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).
Taiwan s chip-making plants are among the largest and most advanced in the world, and the project is intended to boost Japan s competitiveness in a key sector.
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Tue, 1 June 2021
Japan has signed off on a 37 billion yen ($337 million) semiconductor research project to develop cutting-edge chip technology in the country with the market-leading Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).
Taiwan’s chip-making plants are among the largest and most advanced in the world, and the project is intended to boost Japan’s competitiveness in a key sector.
The move comes as industry grapples with a global semiconductor shortage that has hampered the manufacturing of numerous products, particularly autos.
Around 20 Japanese companies will work with TSMC in the project worth 37 billion yen, with the government paying just over half of that, an official from Tokyo’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry told AFP on June 1.
At this year’s TSMC Technology Symposium, the company took the opportunity to update its customers and industry onlookers on the semiconductor manufacturer’s latest developments in regards to its newest technologies and manufacturing roadmaps. As part of a regular presentation, the foundry updated us on its status on it’s current leading-edge manufacturing technologies, the N7, N5 and their respective derivatives such as N6 and N5.
TSMC segregates their leading-edge manufacturing nodes into three product “families”: 7nm, 5nm and the upcoming 3nm manufacturing node. As many will have noted through a wide range of products over the last couple of years, TSMC’s 7nm node introduction and mass manufacturing starting in 2018 was a true tour de force for the foundry, carving out a significant leadership in the industry that the nearest competitors have been struggling to keep up with to this day.