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Japan’s semiconductor industry battles back
28 Oct 2025 10:17 GMT
… toward stabilizing supply. Because semiconductors are small, it’ … Technology’s acquisition of Elpida Memory can also be understood … to a semiconductor shortage shows how important semiconductor supplies … of home appliances and semiconductors, it still relies …
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The lost 30 years: The decline of Japan’s semiconductor industry
21 Oct 2025 10:20 GMT
… a major impact on the semiconductor industry. The previously “aggressive, … creation of companies such as Elpida Memory, which merged the DRAM businesses … Japan’s major vertically integrated semiconductor manufacturers have disappeared, material manufacturers …
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Micron plans $9.6bn HBM chip facility at Hiroshima site in Japan
01 Dec 2025 10:15 GMT
… domestic supply of AI-related semiconductors in Japan amidst ongoing global … memory (DRAM) chips. It acquired Elpida Memory’s plant in Higashi-Hiroshima … of this, the US-based semiconductor company began construction of a …
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Former Elpida Memory Pres. Yukio Sakamoto Dies at 76
28 Feb 2024 07:42 GMT
… Sakamoto, former president of Elpida Memory Inc., now Micron Memory … unit of U.S. semiconductor maker Texas Instruments Inc. … rebuild the management of Elpida Memory, which combined the dynamic … down as president after Elpida Memory became a wholly owned …
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Japan ramping up investment in next-gen semiconductors
29 Apr 2024 13:13 GMT
… , industry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) completed … development of next-generation semiconductors and the machinery … and Hitachi set up Elpida Memory in 1999, but it … produce even more advanced semiconductors, declaring that stable …
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Japan Making Major Investments in its Semiconductor Industry
22 Apr 2024 10:12 GMT
… been concentrating investment in its semiconductor industry more than Western … Hitachi merged their semiconductor memory businesses to form Elpida Memory, but the company … aim of developing cutting-edge semiconductor technology through collaborations between …
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Government to heavily support semiconductor industry’s efforts
25 Nov 2023 01:21 GMT
… massive financial backing to the semiconductor industry.
The supplementary budget now … sector, Elpida Memory Inc. was established in 1999 by merging the semiconductor memory … . and Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
But Elpida Memory went bankrupt in 2012 even …
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In boost for semiconductor ambitions, Japan approves US$1.3 billion in subsidies for US chip firm Micron’s plant in Hiroshima
03 Oct 2023 07:48 GMT
… efforts to bolster next-generation semiconductor production at home.
The subsidies … bought former Japanese DRAM maker Elpida Memory’s operations in 2013, said …
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Curtain Rising on Era of ‘diplomatic War’ over Semiconductors
04 Aug 2023 23:57 GMT
… strategy regarding the semiconductor industry.
Japan’s semiconductor companies flourished in … raising great expectations for “Hinomaru semiconductors.” However, its efforts only resulted … their memory divisions to establish Elpida Memory, Inc. — but it went …
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Japan Govt Must Offer Strategic Support for Domestic Semiconductor Industry
31 Jul 2023 04:37 GMT
… the semiconductor industry — an arena once dominated by Japanese companies — Elpida Memory Inc … . was formed in 1999 through a merger of the semiconductor … others.
To manufacture its advanced semiconductors, Rapidus will require ¥2 trillion …