2NM CHIPS FROM JAPAN BY 2027>The fledgling company aims to make cutting-edge 2-nanometer chips by 2027, a schedule Akazawa reaffirmed, and help Japan lower its reliance on industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Policymakers see Rapidus’ success and technological independence in AI, robotics and quantum computing as critical to the country’s security.https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/04/11/companies/rapidus-japan-subsidies/
Talking your book
>>533136684TSMC and Japan both buy from ASML. Only China's is trying to go homegrown
>>533136684Based
>>533137069wrong. japan has nikon
>>533136684You don't need to make 2nm chips for AI ffs. All you need is decent GPUs with a lot of fast VRAM.Instead of investing into compute they need to invest in memory.
>>533138511the same machines that make the compute ics make the memory.
>>533138602DDR5 is a specialized 10 nm process and HBM4 is a specialized 12 nm process.
feels like we've got to be getting close to the limit of how small they can make them
>>533139036we already did these terms are mostly bullshit
>>533136684You think TSMC is gonna run out of clients? lemao
>>533139036Isn’t it mostly about energy efficiency at this point?
>>533136684Japan needs to stop wasting money on 女 and 外人.
>>533137069because you ching chongs blocked from entering Leuven.
>>533136684Japan is the land of setting sun. The only thing they'll be producing is orgasms for middle aged balding gaijins that come to fuck their women for 5000 yen ($10 USD by 2030.) Actually, technically, it's the black nigerian pimps that will be responsible for managing that, so I didn't even know if you could call it a domestic industry. Say what you want about Thailand, but at least they don't have to have Nigerian pimps managing their ladyboys in Pataya. They've at least got more national pride than Japan at this point. Japan is worst than Sweden and Germany ever were now, and that's saying a lot. JAPAN, YES. We need Captain Japan edits for the old school Captain Sweden memes.
>>533138511Micron Hiroshima produces 10% of world's DRAM. Mobile DRAM (iPhone LPDDR) is especially huge in this fab, it's based on Elpida Memory. Micron didn't have Mobile DRAM until they bought Elpida.
>>533140316Google CEO sat next to PM Takaichi at white house dinner, there Broadcom CEO too, you know what this means.
>>533143342Also Peter Thiel.
>>533142587japan is a monetary sovereign. their debt is irrelevant.
>>533143508Explain more
>>533136684At that point TMC will be making 1NM chips lol. Good try though.
>>533143668if you are a monetary sovereign, which means>you issue your own currency>that currency is not exchangeable at a fixed-rate for a commodity->ax liabilities are denominated in that currency>you hold no significant debt denominated in foreign currenciesthen there is no theoretical limit on the debt you can issue. after all, all of the money is owed in the currency which you are the sole manufacturer of. the only actual constraint is real resources.
>you hold no significant debt denominated in foreign currenciesShould we tell him chat?
>>53314374660% of TSMC suppliers are Japanese makers fyi. We completely control photoresist-related process.
>>533143933Read it again. Slowly if you need to.
>>533144324Okay and Netherlands make the machines? You aren't making the actual chips, that is the thing that matters in the end.
>>533144548Resist suppliers for TSMC N5, N3, N2. I guess you retard not know single one.
>>533144342Retard
>>533136684Rapidus will never compete with TSMC for high yield, high clocking, large die ICs.>>533138368Dumb shit eating retard post.Only ASML EUV machines can actually be used for critical layers in high performance ICs. The novel techniques that camera companies have developed are not the same and not used in the same range of applications.
>>533136684I wonder if they send the fax to all parties involved by triplicated and each had their dedicated faxboy(60) send it to their sub manager by mail
>>533145757>for high yieldBut yield comes from photoresist, and H******* ******** (I don't name this, because it's really critical material).
>>533146069What a laughably ignorant retard post.Its mask alignment, light source intensity directly leading to etched feature resolution, wafer preprocessing, given metals used in BEOL and MOL and their combined effects on parasitic capacitance of the total design, and a million other factors. To say that photoresist is in itself solely responsible for driving yields is laughable and shows you're a dipshit trying to talk about a field you're not part of.
>>533146394Just delivered this to Albany. Thoughts?
>>533146069>H******* ********Hydrogen...what?
>>533146501Yeah but what's the EUV light source? Do you also make that?
>>533146394Photoresists are far more important than ASML's overgrown cameras.
>>533136684Isn't this a subsidiary of tsmc?
>>533147362TSMC generously built a 3nm fab in Kumamoto, we also doing OCTRAM and ZAM with Taiwan
>>533136684Virtually all state-owned enterprises funded by the Japanese government have failed. This is because only companies and products that have withstood free competition and market scrutiny are genuine and valuable; companies protected by taxpayer money are no different from the inefficient enterprises of the former communist bloc.I recommend you not to invest in this state-owned company.
>>533136684I predict that this project will fail.
>>533149941Wrong, Rapidus is an IBM project.
Tons of tax payers' money has been and will be wasted by irresponsible bureaucrats.Although Japan professes to be a liberal and capitalist nation, in reality it operates as a planned economy. And Japan has been failing at this for over 30 years.In contrast, China has embraced free competition and a market economy, becoming a leading nation in science and technology, the economy, diplomacy, and military power, and has emerged as a superpower.
>>533150488China superpower loves TEL etchers
>>533150488curious when you say 30 years. is it because of the recession in the 90s?
>>533150318No. Rapidus and IBM are different company. Rapidus's project to realize the 2nm chip was planned and led by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The technology partnership between Rapidus and IBM was also facilitated by the Japanese government through diplomatic channels.
>>533150902IBM and TEL run Albany Nano, and Rapidus was born there (after the GlobalFoundries experience failed).
Throwing money at semiconductor businesses will not magically build you a TSMC-JAPAN, this requires a special breed of extremely rare and highly skilled engineers that tsmc and smic have poached long time ago, japan may try but they will eventually fail.
>>533151100Half of Rapidus workers are giga elites from IBM Albany and imec Leuven, the other half are ex-Sony/Kioxia/Micron workers.
>>533150989Alright, you are right. Either way, Rapidus will fail, just like GF did.
>>533151290IBM is mostly Indians though.
>>533136684why do dumb faggots like you think TSMC wasn't working on their own sub 3nm? ooh right, you're paid shill paid to push certain stocks to retards for pump and dump. take your kikeky to reddit, jeet fag
>>533151290>>533151575This was 8 years ago. And the shift has only accelerated.
A List of Failed Government-Led tech Projects in JapanΣ projectFifth Generation Computer SystemsInformation Great Voyage ProjectGovernment-produced cashless transaction system 7-payISDB-TMitsubishi Regional JetMy Number Point ProjectElpida memoryRenesas ElectronicsJapan Display IncJapanese bureaucrats be like> Let's play the lottery with tax-payers money.> Woops! I lost.> Let's play another one.
>>533136684It sounds like Japan is preparing to retake Taiwan and western influenced countries are diversitying supply lines.
>>533144324>>533144548I know nothing about this but I’m enjoying this conversation
>>533144548Are you stupid?Japan, Netherlands, U.S. and China all have chokeholds in the semiconductor industry.The global chip industry can't produce chips if any of them goes full sanctions.
>>533152175ASML has a monopoly over 90% of the lithography machines, realistically if Japan gets in their good graces they can get a patent or two out of it. The only threat is if they get outdated products and were banking on a planned obsolescence strategy like they're Apple in the 2010s. The rest of the low-end manufacturing for semi-conductors is broken up across all of Asia in one massive supply chain, so everyone profits regardless (but mostly ASML).
>>533154861If the Chinese are so good at stealing tech why haven’t they stolen ASML’s? Serious question
Japan banks are the most exposed to the ai bubbles; they have invested hundred of billions into everything AI like retards. Nips will not recover from the incoming financial crisis.
>>533142876Middle Eastern offshore desalination plants need Japanese reverse osmosis membranes.In other words, Japan relies on the Middle East for oil and natural gas, and the Middle East relies on Japan for water.
>>533145014Like I said -- read it again. Slowly.Japan is the holder of the debt -- they do not owe it in the foreign currency. And the US does not owe it in foreign currency. Do you understand?
