News Japan to Build $2.38 Billion Research Center for 2nm Process Node Development

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Japan plans to establish $2.4 billion semiconductor research center with the U.S.

Japan to Build $2.38 Billion Research Center for 2nm Process Node Development : Read more

 

[PlaneInTheSky]

Research without fabs is useless to a country.

Look at IMEC in Europe, they are responsible for probably half the discoveries on how to design new nodes. Yet without Europe having cutting edge fabs themselves, this R&D just gets bought up by TSMC, Samsung and Intel. Sure, the individual researchers make money, but neither does Belgium or Europe benefit from this, even though taxpayers fund this research.

The same is happening with Quantum computing, a lot of R&D coming out of Europe, yet without any actual chip design, this potential is just wasted since US and Taiwanese companies just buy up the research. It doesn't help these nations.

You need the R&D, Europe and Japan have this, but neither of them has the actual cutting edge chip factories needed to turn this into a money making machine like TSMC, Samsung and Intel have.

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[CooliPi]

So true.. 😢

 

[Steve Nord_]

Research without fabs is useless to a country.

It makes sense to be out of phase with supposedly immediate (6-10 yrs. construction and construction automation) fabs in NY and AZ. It's kind of a new age of orthogonal development to be had in 300 layer heads, hBN, carbides, nitrides, twistronics, 1T...5T materials and nanofibers, GaAs, nanooptics and quantum materials, with plenty to be done on the backend and gantry bots. Europe and Africa can hope to have their turns and twists.