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Kishida eyes legislation to boost domestic chip production

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has pledged to offer a total of 920 billion yen in subsidies

Where's that money come from?

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But the question is what will then run on these many many chips if they are available once? I understand the wish to jump on that hyped train for some short-term prospects and profits, but there's not so much more to expect, especially not, that any AI projects and phantasies will ever work properly on a big scale. That is by intrinsics and also mathematically impossible and can already now be completely excluded from plans, wishes or hopes.

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Days of Japan's chip manufacturing is over. Japan hasn't built a new advanced fab for more than 14 years. Japan is behind the industry leaders by 7 generations, a gap too large to overcome.

It's simply a waste of money trying to re-establish Japanese chip manufacturing, the best Japan can do is subsidize TSMC's Japanese operations.

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Good News, Europe is also taking steps to reduce its dependence on other countries for this crucial piece of technology.

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Days of Japan's chip manufacturing is over. Japan hasn't built a new advanced fab for more than 14 years. Japan is behind the industry leaders by 7 generations, a gap too large to overcome.

It's simply a waste of money trying to re-establish Japanese chip manufacturing, the best Japan can do is subsidize TSMC's Japanese operations.

I am generally inclined to agree, it would be smarter for them to try to woo companies like Intel and Samsung, more than anything else. Although that would probably upset TSMC which more or less wants this monopoly to last forever.

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Japan has not been active in the semiconductor field, which is often talked about, recently, but as an industrial country, there is no option to do nothing toward the development of next-generation semiconductors.

Japan has not only attracted TSMC factories, but has also established cooperative systems with Micron, IBM, and ASML.

In other words, a cooperative system for next-generation semiconductor development and existing semiconductor production systems is being established among four countries: the United States, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and Japan.

South Korea's Samsung is famous for its cooperative relationship with China. And it was forced by Trump to build a factory in the United States, but it is not going well.

Neither Trump nor Biden see Samsung as a blue team.

It is unlikely that Japan would cooperate with Samsung, which is being abandoned by semiconductor suppliers.

There are plans to build a research facility in Yokohama, but it is too small and looks like nothing more than a spy organization to steal semiconductor industry technology.

If Samsung, which only has memory technology, can no longer supply cheap memory, its demise as a company will be near.

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In a peaceful world, it might be OK to rely solely on Taiwan for our electronic chips. Increasingly, we do not live in a peaceful world, and it is suicide to rely solely on Taiwan for microchips.

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Normally I am not a fan of government subsidies.

But in a world where nothing works and pretty much everything requires chips, securing local manufacturing of chips is a national security and national manufacturing must!

It would be better if that funding came with shares for the Nation so that not only do we get locally produced chips but also benefit from the profits.

Make it shares that profit the pension and healthcare funds which with the declining population and aging population will need all the extra money it can get.

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