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Rapidus Announces Strategic Partnership with Quest Global to Enable Advanced 2nm Solutions for the AI Chip Era TOKYO, Japan, March 25, 2025 — Rapidus Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors, today announced that it signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Quest Global Services PTE. Ltd. As part of the agreement, Rapidus will become Quest Global’s new semiconductor foundry partner, enabling it to provide a wide range of solutions to its customers. Quest Global customers will be able to leverage Rapidus’ 2nm gate-all-around (GAA) manufacturing process to develop engineering design and manufacturing solutions that will support growing industry demand for low-power artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors. Together, the two companies will deliver transformational silicon solutions as a virtual integrated device manufacturer (IDM) model for fabless companies. The AI semiconductor industry is in its early stages, with applications jus...

Japanese government-backed foundry Rapidus Inc. has denied media reports on plans to deliver 2-nanometer chip prototypes to US-based fabless semiconductor company Broadcom in 2025.  

AI chip startup Gemesys raises €8.6m pre-seed round, led by Atlantic Labs and Amadeus Apex Technology Fund. Sony Innovation Fund participated in the funding round. The company says it's seeking to reduce the energy consumption of training and running AI models by 10,000 times by having chipsets with trained AI models run directly on smartphones and other devices, without the need to transmit any raw data to a data center. It is currently working with three pilot customers in energy grid, hearing implants and security.  

Company Profile Company Name: Kioxia Holdings Corporation Scheduled Listing Date: Wed Dec. 18, 2024 Market Section Prime Market Representative: HAYASAKA Nobuo, President and CEO Address of Main Office 3-1-21 Shibaura, Minato-ku Tokyo, 108-0023 Tel. +81-3-6478-2539 Home Page: https://www.kioxia-holdings.com/en-jp/top.html Date of Incorporation: Mar. 1, 2019 Description of Business: Strategy formulation and management oversight of group companies engaged in development, manufacturing and sales of memory, SSD and related products Category of Industry: Electric Appliances Ticker: 285A Fund raising target: 100 billion yen (646.1 million dollars) Major shareholder: private equity firm, Bain Capital  Q2 FY2024: Revenue +52.4%, Net income +36.5% (QoQ)    

Company Profile Company Name: TMH Inc. Scheduled Listing Date: Wed Dec. 4, 2024 Market Section: Growth Market Concurrent Listings: Fukuoka Stock Exchange Representative: ENAMI Taisuke, President Address of Main Office 3-14-6 Shimogorikita, Oita, Oita, 870-0952 Tel. +81-97-576-7666 Home Page: https://www.tmh-inc.co.jp/en/ Date of Incorporation: Mar. 9, 2012 Description of Business: Sales and repair services for semiconductor manufacturing equipment parts, and support for the purchase and sale of semiconductor manufacturing equipment Category of Industry: Wholesale Trade Ticker: 280A