Japan tries to reclaim its clout as a global tech leaderNow, after a period of stagnation that Japan's economy ministry refers to as "the lost three decades," Tokyo is engaged in a multibillion-d...
14 Sep, 2024, 04.22 PM IST
Japan tries to reclaim its clout as a global tech leaderTokyo's industrial policy focus today is on advanced forms of technologies ranging from batteries to solar panels, but the priority is recl...
06 Sep, 2024, 04.09 PM IST
Global chips battle intensifies with $81 billion subsidy surgeThe concern over China’s rapid advances in key electronics turned into a full-scale panic during the pandemic because chip shortages emphas...
13 May, 2024, 09.59 AM IST
Japanese PM Fumio Kishida expects more US chip collaboration opportunitiesKishida commented a day before a summit with US president Joe Biden that will focus on boosting economic and defense ties to offset China's...
10 Apr, 2024, 09.21 AM IST
Japan approves $3.9 billion in subsidies for chipmaker RapidusJapan previously agreed to provide subsidies worth some 330 billion yen to Rapidus. The newly approved aid includes 53.5 billion yen for ad...
02 Apr, 2024, 07.26 AM IST
Japan pledges a further $4.9 billion to help TSMC expand Japan productionJapan offers subsidies to TSMC for a second chip fabrication plant. TSMC's first factory in Kumamoto opens. It plans to produce advanced ch...
25 Feb, 2024, 10.47 AM IST
Chip giant TSMC shifts away from hotspot Taiwan with Japan plantTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which counts Apple and Nvidia as clients, produces half the world's chips, used in everything f...
24 Feb, 2024, 11.41 AM IST
Japan takes Taiwan's helping hand on long road to chip revivalThat Japan turned to TSMC for help on an industry it once dominated reflects the Taiwan chipmaker's dominant position in the foundry busine...
23 Feb, 2024, 09.20 AM IST
Taiwan chip firms flock to Japan as China decoupling acceleratesThe influx comes amid shifting alliances and priorities in the global chip industry as the United States pushes to limit China's progress i...
22 Feb, 2024, 08.53 AM IST
Japan offers $300 million backing for chip research organisationUnderpinned by billions of dollars in subsidies, Rapidus aims to mass manufacture 2-nanometre logic chips in Hokkaido and compete with lead...
09 Feb, 2024, 05.31 PM IST
Japan to spend $13 billion for chip industry support in extra budgetThe country is a leading provider of chipmaking tools and materials that lost its edge in manufacturing in recent decades and is now provid...
10 Nov, 2023, 05.29 PM IST
Tata and Vedanta offer India lessons in industrial policyBusiness diversification and revitalization is the right direction for Indian business. But industrial policy needs to be based on what mak...
06 Nov, 2023, 07.51 AM IST
Taiwan's TSMC prizes Japan's chips skills amid Arizona factory problemsTSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, is frustrated in Arizona, the sources said, where it has struggled to recruit workers for the...
13 Sep, 2023, 09.26 AM IST
EU, Japan to deepen chip cooperation: EU industry chief Thierry BretonThe EU and Japan will work together to monitor the chip supply chain and facilitate the exchange of researchers and engineers, Breton said.
03 Jul, 2023, 10.38 AM IST
Japan ramps up efforts to strengthen its chip industryHere is a look at investments in Japan announced by chipmakers and measures the government is taking to revive its semiconductor industry.
26 Jun, 2023, 09.37 AM IST
Chipmakers' plans for factories in Europe, US and AsiaIndia, Taiwan and South Korea have offered incentives such as tax breaks to boost domestic chip production. Here are some of the chipmakers...
20 Jun, 2023, 04.45 PM IST