DECRYPTION – A national consortium is joining forces with IBM to mass-produce 2-nanometer chips. A titanic challenge.
Tokyo
«We will change the world“: on the stage of the prestigious Tokyo Kaikan, in the heart of Tokyo, Atsuyoshi Koike competes in superlatives. The general manager of Rapidus, the Japanese semiconductor consortium recently formed by eight prestigious local manufacturers (including Toyota and Sony), with the blessing of the Ministry of Industry (Meti), insists on the importance of the moment: an alliance with the American computer services giant IBM to eventually mass-produce semiconductors with a size of 2 nanometers in Japan. At his side, Dario Gil, deputy general manager and research director of IBM, came to Tokyo for the occasion. Behind them, in projection: an image of the Shinkansen, the Japanese high-speed train, symbol of the industrial excellence of the world’s third largest economy, some will say; relic of its past glory, others will say.
Because Japan has come a long way. “At the end of the 1980s, it was the first producer of semiconductors…
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