Japan plans to provide an additional ~$1.94B in assistance to Rapidus, a government-backed chip consortium that is working with IBM to mass produce 2nm chips
Too Little Too Late. $2Billion subsidy, for prototyping, CANNOT “bring back” leading edge chip manufacturing in a digital-incompetent Japan. Semiconductor Chip manufacturing capital investments is NOT for “risk-averse Japanese” and its all about “scaling” beyond R&D-prototyping. …
Japan's state-backed chipmaker Rapidus will use fresh assistance from the government to build a test-production line and send engineers to technological partner IBM. https://asia.nikkei.com/...