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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.  

[Yokohama, Japan and Milpitas, Calif., February 26, 2025] -- Socionext, a leading global company developing system-on-chip (SoC) for data centers, AI, and automotive sectors, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Google Quantum AI. Together, the two companies will develop controller SoCs for Google Quantum AI’s next-generation quantum computing system. Socionext has a long history in semiconductor technology and development. In this new partnership focused on quantum computing system controllers, Socionext will utilize its expertise to deliver high-precision, high-quality semiconductor products that will contribute to Google Quantum AI’s quantum computing system and drive technological innovation.  

Tokyo Electron (TEL; Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Toshiki Kawai) announced it will expand Tokyo Electron Miyagi, a manufacturing subsidiary, by constructing a new production building at the Miyagi plant (Miyagi Prefecture, Japan) to meet the rapidly growing demand for semiconductors in recent years. As the use of digital technologies becomes more widespread and semiconductor technology innovation continues to advance, the semiconductor market is expected to exceed $1 trillion by 2030, driving further growth in the semiconductor equipment market. Tokyo Electron Miyagi’s dry etch systems business is also expected to grow significantly as its share of the expanding market increases. The new production building will adopt the Smart Production concept, which embodies the next-generation approach to manufacturing. By automating logistics functions and mechanizing manufacturing processes, the new facility will provide production lines with high capacity, quality,...

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: Kuroda Group Co.,Ltd. Scheduled Listing Date: Tue Dec. 17, 2024 Market Section Standard Market Representative: HOSOKAWA Koichi, CEO Address of Main Office 5-17-9 Minami-Oi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 140-0013 Tel. +81-3-5764-5500 Home Page: https://www.kuroda-group.com/hd/en/ Date of Incorporation: Oct. 6, 2017 Description of Business: Manufacturing and sales of oriented film printing plates for liquid crystal displays, automation equipment, plastic injection molds, parts for HDD, electrical facilities materials and power materials, and aluminium die-cast products, design and contract development of printed circuit boards, sales of electronic parts and electrical materials to the electronics and automotive industries Category of Industry: Wholesale Trade Ticker: 287A  

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   

Darling chip equipment maker Disco, which was added to the Nikkei 225 index this year, surged 7.67% on Friday, after reporting a 25.4% increase in Q2 net income on 17 Oct 2024, Thursday. Sales also saw an increase of 16.2% in Q2 FY2024, due to increase in sales volume and faster acceptance of new machines shipped to wafer fabrication plants.  

TOKYO and HOKKAIDO, Japan, Oct. 3, 2024 – Rapidus Corporation, a company backed by the Japanese government, involved in the research, development, design, manufacture and sales of advanced logic semiconductors, today announced that it will set up a clean room within Seiko Epson Corporation’s facility in Chitose, Hokkaido, and open a research-and-development (R&D) center for semiconductor post-processing called Rapidus Chiplet Solutions (RCS). The Seiko Epson Chitose Plant is adjacent to the Rapidus Innovative Integration for Manufacturing (IIM) foundry, the semiconductor manufacturing facility that Rapidus is currently building in Bibi, Chitose City. The new R&D space was unveiled at a groundbreaking ceremony held today, with the clean room amassing an area of approximately 9,000m2 (96,875 square feet). Leveraging the new R&D facility, Rapidus will develop mass production technologies for chiplet packages. Rapidus will begin installing manufacturing equipment in April 2025,...