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作成日: 2023/02/28 16:40

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Japanese semiconductor maker Rapidus says it will build a new factory in Hokkaido Prefecture, in the north of the country, for the mass-production of advanced computer chips.
                
Rapidus President Koike Atsuyoshi announced the decision at a meeting with the governor of Hokkaido on Tuesday.
                
Koike said &quot;We aim to produce semiconductors made in Japan that contribute to the world. We decided that Hokkaido is the best place to achieve that.&quot;
                
Hokkaido Governor Suzuki Naomichi said &quot; The effect of the factory construction in terms of investment and employment is expected to be a huge. This will be one of the biggest projects so far for Hokkaido, so we would like to move firmly forward.&quot;
                
The new factory will be built in an industrial park in Chitose City, close to automotive-industry plants and a major airport.
                
Rapidus says the facility may eventually expand to about 100 hectares. The firm aims to mass-produce 2-nanometer chips by 2027.
                
Eight Japanese companies, including Toyota Motor, Sony Group and telecom giant NTT announced in November that they had teamed up to establish Rapidus.
                
Cutting-edge semiconductors with thinner circuits are considered a must for next-generation technologies such as autonomous driving and artificial intelligence.
But no chipmaker in the world has so far been able to commercialize 2-nanometers chips.
                
Japan lags far behind in the field of advanced semiconductors.
                
Taiwan&#039;s TSMC, South Korea&#039;s Samsung and US company Intel are competing fiercely to produce thinner circuits for better performance.
                
They are leading development of mainstream 5-nanometer to 16-nanometer chips for smartphones and data centers.
                
Samsung started mass-producing 3-nanometer chips last June. Samsung and TSMC have also announced plans to commercialize 2-nanometer chips by 2025.
                
Rapidus has already signed a joint-development deal with US IT giant IBM which has expertise in making chip circuits thinner.

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