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Monday 6 July 2026
Micron breaks ground on Hiroshima expansion to boost AI memory chip production
Micron Technology has begun construction on an expansion of its existing semiconductor plant in Higashi-Hiroshima, western Japan, as part of a JPY1.5 trillion (approx. US$9.3 billion)...
Monday 6 July 2026
Asahi Kasei to expand Taiwan photoresist film capacity for AI chip packaging
Asahi Kasei, one of the notable suppliers of Sunfort dry film photoresist in Japan, has initiated a fab expansion project in Taiwan. The newly established plant is expected to further...
Monday 6 July 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Sumitomo Chemical to form glass-core venture for chip substrates

Samsung Electro-Mechanics signed a final agreement on July 2 with Sumitomo Chemical's Korean subsidiary Dongwoo Fine-Chem to form a...

Friday 3 July 2026
India and Japan deepen economic security ties at New Delhi summit
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi held her first summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on July 2, during a three-day visit that both governments framed...
Friday 3 July 2026
Kioxia begins sample shipments of 10th-generation flash memory
Kioxia has begun sample shipments of 1Tb triple-level-cell memory devices built with its 10th-generation BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory technology. The move underscores the race to supply...
Friday 3 July 2026
Renesas trims chip portfolio to focus on AI servers and EVs

Renesas Electronics has completed the sale of its timing device business to US fabless semiconductor specialist SiTime, tightening its...

Friday 3 July 2026
Seoul seeks Kumamoto's chip playbook, but Japan's model isn't easy to copy

As South Korea moves to accelerate a new semiconductor cluster in the country's southwest, ruling-party officials have returned to...

Thursday 2 July 2026
Socionext to develop TSMC A14 chiplet for AI data center SoCs

Socionext announced that it would develop a high-performance compute chiplet using TSMC's A14 process technology, positioning the project...

Thursday 2 July 2026
SoftBank leads Japan's sovereign AI push, with Foxconn eyeing the compute backbone

Japan's sovereign AI push is moving from policy ambition to industrial buildout, with SoftBank-backed Noetra at the center, and Foxconn...

Thursday 2 July 2026
Sovereign connectivity race accelerates: Japan readies subsidy for Rakuten-led satellite network

Japan is preparing to support a Rakuten-led low-Earth orbit satellite communications project, as the country looks to reduce reliance...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
China's chip material makers riding the AI boom close in on Japan

Chinese semiconductor material manufacturers are accelerating investments in advanced products as Beijing pushes for greater self-sufficiency,...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
Chinese battery makers reportedly shut out of Japan's cybersecurity certification

Chinese manufacturers of grid-connected battery storage systems have reportedly yet to obtain Japan's cybersecurity certification ahead...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
Japan launches US$6.2 billion AI initiative as SoftBank consortium targets physical AI leadership

Japan is making one of its largest AI investments to date, committing up to JPY1 trillion (approx. US$6.2 billion) to support a domestic...

Tuesday 30 June 2026
Riken and Taiwan academia join forces on next-gen compound semiconductors
Japan's world-renowned Riken institute announced in late March 2026 that its homegrown superconducting quantum computer, "Ei-II," jointly developed with the University of Osaka, had...
Monday 29 June 2026
China adds 40 Japanese entities to export control and watch lists

China has imposed new export control measures on 40 Japanese entities, placing 20 organizations on its export control list and another...