{"id":15337,"date":"2025-08-22T03:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15337\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:45:17","slug":"asahi-kasei-to-double-chip-material-production-tapping-into-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15337\/","title":{"rendered":"Asahi Kasei to double chip material production, tapping into AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/materials\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Materials<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Japanese chemical maker to speed up investments amid demand for data centers<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20250821N Asahi Chemical\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Asahi Kasei is among the Japanese materials suppliers scrambling to spend more on production facilities to keep up with demand for chip materials and data centers. (Asahi Kasei)<\/p>\n<p>EMI OKADA<\/p>\n<p>August 22, 2025 02:49 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Chemical maker Asahi Kasei is accelerating its production ramp-up of an insulating material used in cutting-edge semiconductor products like graphical processing units, spending\u00a016 billion yen ($108 million) on domestic facilities\u00a0with the aim of\u00a0doubling output by fiscal 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Materials Japanese chemical maker to speed up investments amid demand for data centers Asahi Kasei is among the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,13934,8532,8535,13936,18,19,17,13935,13937,13938,13939,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-15337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-asahi","12":"tag-boom","13":"tag-chip","14":"tag-double","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-kasei","19":"tag-material","20":"tag-production","21":"tag-tapping","22":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}