The Japanese are hoping for a breakthrough. It will cost PLN 267 billion
Japan is pulling out a bag of money, all to return to the glory days of the end of the last century. It’s about domestic semiconductor production.
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It is no secret that the current leader in the semiconductor production market is Taiwan. From services TSMC benefit all the giants in the industry – Apple, AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, Qualcomm, MediaTek and many more. Both the United States and Europe want to change this situation. And Japan is also planning to get into the game.
The Japanese expect a profit of PLN 4.1 trillion in 10 years
As reported by Reuters, the Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba revealed an ambitious plan revitalization of the chip industry in the Land of the Rising Sun. Investments are expected to amount to the equivalent of PLN 267 billion and will be implemented by 2030. This is to allow for a return to the glory days of the 1980s and 1990s.
The main beneficiary of the grant is to be Rapidus and other manufacturers of systems for working with artificial intelligence. Rapidus was founded in 2022, when the Japanese government prompted eight international companies to cooperate. The goal is production in 2 nm lithography by 2027which seems like a very ambitious goal.
It is assumed that the described plan will be approved by the Japanese government already November 22. It includes investments of value 50 trillion yen through public and private companies over the next 10 years. An economic return of 160 trillion yen is expected, i.e approximately PLN 4.1 trillion. These huge amounts seem not so much optimistic as downright impossible.
It took many years for TSMC to get to its current position and required mistakes on both sides SamsungWhat Intel Foundry. So the question arises: does Japan still have enough talented engineers after years of stagnation? Money alone may not be enough, as the current situation in China clearly proves. Either way, more competition in the semiconductor market is good news.
