Japan plans to buy 27,500 next-generation Rubin chips from Nvidia Corp. to build a homegrown foundational AI model for robots, overseen by newly established Noetra Corp. with ¥387.3 billion ($2.4 bill…
NVIDIA announced that Japan's physical AI leaders, including AIRoA, FANUC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, NEC, SoftBank Corp., Sony Group Corporation and Yaskawa Electric, intend…
Rapidus, a Japanese semiconductor startup backed by eight major firms including Toyota and Sony, is pursuing 2-nanometer logic production with a pilot line operating in Chitose since April 2025 and ma…
Samsung Electronics reported an 18-fold surge in second-quarter operating profit to 89.4 trillion won ($58.4 billion), driven by rising memory chip prices amid AI demand, but a subsequent share slump …
Japan launched Noetra, a ¥380 billion AI company backed by SoftBank, Sony, NEC, Honda, and METI, to secure national leadership in physical AI and robotics. The coalition aims to reduce reliance on for…
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has committed up to 1 trillion yen ($6.2 billion) over five years to back Noetra, a physical AI consortium led by SoftBank, Sony, NEC, and Honda,…
Japan committed $2.65 billion to Rapidus for advanced semiconductor fabrication, while Chinese AI software gains cost competitiveness against US models, as global semiconductor sales surged 93.9% year…
NEC announced Thursday that Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, and five other major Japanese financial firms will join its AI collaboration with U.S. startup Anthropic. T…
The article announces the release of MDTang 0.1, a port of the Genesis-MiSTer core for the Tang Mega 138K/138K Pro FPGA boards, bringing Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) emulation to these platforms. It prov…