Japan targeting 2025-7 for 2nm process

Author: EIS Release Date: Jun 23, 2022

Japanese and US companies are to work together to establish a Japanese capability to manufacture 2nm ICs by 2025-7, reports the Nikkei.

 

The US and Japanese governments are backing the initiative which was initiated in May by an agreement between the US and Japanese governments to co-operate on chips.

 

Companies expected to be involved include IBM, Intel, Applied Materials, Canon, Tokyo Electron, Sumco and Shin-Etsu Chemical among others.

 

A laboratory in Tsukuba run by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology is the hub for the joint effort.

 

Either the US and Japanese companies will set up a new company to manage the effort or it will be left to the Japanese companies to build a production fab.

 

METI, the Ministry for Economy, Trade and Industry will cover the capex costs of the fab and part of the R&D costs.