Japan is forcing commercial banks to bankroll its chip ambitions. Tokyo just committed an extra 400 billion yen to 2nm s...

Japan is forcing commercial banks to bankroll its chip ambitions. Tokyo just committed an extra 400 billion yen to 2nm startup Rapidus, deliberately absorbing equity risk to compel megabanks into underwriting trillion-yen loans. Combined with NTT’s new optical chiplet push and a packaging effort at Tohoku University, it is a high-stakes attempt to engineer a top-tier foundry from...#Japan #AsiaAI #JapanTech #AIhttps://asiaai.fyi/japan-2-6b-rapidus-semiconductor-subsidies/

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