Japan is out of the chip race but still in the game
Japan lost its edge in chips decades ago — to chip designers in the US and manufacturers in Taiwan and South Korea. Since the ...
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Japan's Kioxia to cut wafer input volume for flash chip production by 30% at two plants
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Kioxia Corp said on Friday it would slash wafer input volume for chip production by about 30% at its Yokkaichi and Kitakami flash memory plants from October amid weakening ...
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Canon releases ‘game-changing’ chipmaking equipment
The equipment is used to print fine circuit patterns on semiconductor wafers. Japanese manufacturers once had a monopoly on the market for lithography systems, but they were overpowered by ASML ...
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GlobalWafers Faces Slower Recovery Than Expected Due to Automotive and Industrial Weakness
GlobalWafers’ reputation as a leading-edge wafer supplier is not as strong as Japanese peers Shin-Etsu and Sumco. GlobalWafers has a sound balance sheet. The company had a net debt/equity ratio ...