Japanese semiconductor company Rapidus will sign agreements with public institutions in Britain and Italy on research and development cooperation, Rapidus executives told Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The signing will coincide with Takaichi\u2019s trip to Europe starting Saturday.<\/p>\n
Briefing Takaichi at the prime minister\u2019s office in Tokyo, Rapidus President Atsuyoshi Koike said that the company, which aims to mass-produce state-of-the-art semiconductors, will \u201cwork hand-in-hand with Europe to make the first step toward the discovery of a new world and new technologies that have never been seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rapidus will exchange memorandums of understanding on the cooperation with U.K. Semiconductor Center, which supports the British chip industry through funding by the British government, and Fondazione Chips-IT, an Italian government research institute.<\/p>\n
The MoUs are expected to cover collaborations over technologies and research for manufacturing cutting-edge semiconductors. The Japanese government will back Rapidus\u2019 efforts, with an eye toward developing sales channels in the two European countries.<\/p>\n
At Thursday\u2019s meeting, Takaichi said, \u201cI hope to promote (related efforts), mainly among like-minded nations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Japanese government has already decided to provide a total of around \u00a52.4 trillion ($15 billion) in aid to Rapidus.<\/p>\n
The company aims to start mass-producing 2-nanometer chips in fiscal 2027. Currently, it is holding talks with over 60 firms, mainly those in the United States, to secure clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese semiconductor company Rapidus will sign agreements with public institutions in Britain and Italy on research and development…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16669,5,16668,16671,5324,16670],"class_list":["post-23835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-chipmakers","tag-italy","tag-rapidus","tag-sanae-takaichi","tag-tech","tag-u-k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}