Eight main Japanese firms have invested in “Rapidus,” which goals to domestically produce superior semiconductors, and has formally introduced that it’ll construct a manufacturing unit in Chitose City, Hokkaido, aiming for mass manufacturing in 2027.
On the morning of the twenty eighth, President Atsuyoshi Koike visited the Hokkaido authorities workplace and informed reporters, “We have decided to build a new Lapidus factory in Chitose City.”
Rapidus, which is funded by Toyota Motor Corporation, NTT, Sony Group, and so on., goals to mass-produce 2-nanometer superior semiconductors which are important for next-generation industries corresponding to autonomous driving and AI (synthetic intelligence).
The firm determined to construct a brand new manufacturing unit as a result of there are automobile-related factories close by, that are anticipated to provide semiconductors, and since it has good entry to New Chitose Airport, and is working towards mass manufacturing. will go one step additional.