With TSMC s Kumamoto chip plant buzzing, its CEO Wei and Japan s premier underscores the semiconductor giant s role in Tokyo s revival of its crumbling chip industry amid huge investments and expansion plans.
That Japan turned to TSMC for help on an industry it once dominated reflects the Taiwan chipmaker s dominant position in the foundry business and Tokyo s heightened concern over China s growing prowess in a wide swathe of technology.
By Sam Nussey and Miho Uranaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Chipmaker TSMC formally opens its first Japanese plant on Saturday, highlighting the Taiwanese firm's critical role in Tokyo's multi-billion dollar efforts to reboot its once-mighty semiconductor man.
Japan turning to TSMC for help on an industry it once dominated reflects the Taiwan chipmaker's dominant position in the foundry business and Tokyo's heightened concern over China's growing prowess in a wide swathe of technology.
That Japan turned to TSMC for help on an industry it once dominated reflects the Taiwan chipmaker s dominant position in the foundry business and Tokyo s heightened concern over China s growing prowess in a wide swathe of technology.