Japanese and US companies are to work together to establish a Japanese capability to manufacture 2nm ICs by 2025-7, reports the Nikkei.
www.electronicsweekly.com, Jun. 15, 2022 –
The US and Japanese governments are backing the initiative which was initiated in May by an agreement between the US and Japanese governments to co-operate on chips.
Companies expected to be involved include IBM, Intel, Applied Materials, Canon, Tokyo Electron, Sumco and Shin-Etsu Chemical among others.
A laboratory in Tsukuba run by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology is the hub for the joint effort.
Either the US and Japanese companies will set up a new company to manage the effort or it will be left to the Japanese companies to build a production fab.