Japan aims to triple chip sales to ¥15 trillion in 2030

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Tokyo-based flash memory maker Kioxia Corp are constructing their plants in Kumamoto and Mie prefectures, respectively, through subsidies of the Japanese government as well.

TSMC is one of the richest companies to ever exist. Why on earth are Japanese taxpayers footing so much of the bill. Use your damn profits to build the new fab! Privatized profits, socialized losses!

@David Brent

Why on earth are Japanese taxpayers footing so much of the bill. 

TSMC won't consider Japan when there are so many countries throwing multi-billion dollar subsidies to TSMC to host its fabs.

With Japan's indigenous chip manufacturers all dead, attracting foreign chip makers like TSMC and Micron is the only way to keep Japan's chip manufacturing going, like how UK's auto manufacturers are all dead and all manufacturers are foreign owned.

Anyhow, this 15 trillion yen sale goal is simply impossible, Japan's chip manufacturing and materials industry is shrinking, not expanding.

Rapidus Corp., a new company formed last year through investments

And this one's going to go bankrupt in 5 years just like Toshiba, Elpida, JOLED, etc.

2nm is not for the faint of heart, there is only one company in the world that actually succeeded in manufacturing 3nm chips, Samsung. TSMC tried and failed, and is moving away from 3nm with N3E process, best described as 3.7nm.

It is highly unlikely Japanese can fab 2nm when the last advanced node Japan fabbed is 28nm in 2010, there is literally a 14 year gap between industry leaders Samsung/TSMC and the Japanese.

Heck, the Chinese have much more experience than Japanese yet they are stuck at 14nm.

Let's just turn the world into a graphics card so we don't have to work anymore.

well if Japan wants it can manufacture it n Basu Skorea can keep on bragging abt chip that samsung has never manufactured lol

Well done. keep it up.

Good for Japan helping itself