{"id":644800,"date":"2026-08-19T04:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/644800\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T04:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:14:14","slug":"japan-chip-startup-targets-ai-boom-as-industry-focus-turns-to-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/644800\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan chip startup targets AI boom as industry focus turns to materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/editor-s-picks\/interview\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">University of Tokyo spinout expands production as customer projects advance<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260813 Gaianixx 2\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Gaianixx co-founder and CEO\u00a0Kento Nakao says the company could start trial mass production by the end of this year. (Photo by Yuji Murakami)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TSUBASA SURUGA<\/p>\n<p>August 19, 2026 09:56 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; A chip materials startup spun off from Japan&#8217;s top university is preparing to expand production after winning commitments from major customers, betting that its technology can meet growing demand amid the artificial intelligence boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview University of Tokyo spinout expands production as customer projects advance Gaianixx co-founder and CEO\u00a0Kento Nakao says the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,8532,8535,18,19418,19,4286,17,386,456,934,18562,82,105400],"class_list":["post-644800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-boom","tag-chip","tag-eire","tag-focus","tag-ie","tag-industry","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-materials","tag-startup","tag-targets","tag-technology","tag-turns"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644800","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=644800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}