Siemens announced at its EDA Tech Forum in Tokyo that it is integrating NVIDIA AI into its Fuse EDA software to support Japan's Rapidus 2nm chip production, aiming to automate verification tasks and a…
Rapidus President Atsuyoshi Koike said strong demand for AI semiconductors and data centers is a 'powerful tailwind' for the company's planned 2nm chip mass production, which is on schedule. Koike pro…
The memory market is projected to grow nearly four-fold to over $837 billion by 2026, driven by AI demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), according to a Gartner forecast cited in EE Times Japan. Japa…
Terafab, a new Texas chip factory with a roughly 2nm ambition and a $16.8 billion first phase, is targeting space-grade chip manufacturing for orbital AI processing aboard SpaceX satellites, different…
Global semiconductor sales surged 35% year-over-year in Q2 2026, led by the Americas, Asia Pacific, and China, according to industry data. China's sales jumped 112.8%, signaling a self-sustaining, dec…
TSMC accelerated construction of its 1.4-nanometer fab in Taichung, with trial production targeted for the third quarter of 2027, widening its lead over Samsung and Intel in advanced AI silicon manufa…
The AI boom is structurally reshaping East Asia's electronics supply chains as memory and logic chip makers prioritize high-margin AI hardware over traditional PC and smartphone components, creating s…
Japan has launched a state-backed company called Noetra to build a foundational model for physical AI and robots, backed by over 380 billion yen ($2.33 billion) in first-year government funding and a …
SK Hynix is listing on the Nasdaq in a record $26.5 billion share sale to fund high-bandwidth memory production, betting that AI demand will break the semiconductor industry's historic boom-and-bust c…
Japan-backed Rapidus aims to mass-produce 2 nm chips by 2027 at lower prices than TSMC, but TSMC's dominant market share, customer relationships, and manufacturing scale make it difficult for challeng…
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…
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi unveiled a ¥370 trillion ($2.3 trillion) growth strategy targeting 17 strategic sectors by 2040, with major investments in AI and semiconductors. The plan aims t…
IBM unveiled a 0.7nm chip technology using a nanostack architecture that doubles transistor density over its 2nm design, packing nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized chip. The chip is …
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…