Japan, Taiwan Prioritize Co-founding Chipmaking Facility to Deter CCP

Published on March 4, 2024

News Analysis Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC), the world’s largest foundry of its kind, officially completed the construction of subsidiary plant Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing, Inc. (JASM) in Kumamoto Prefecture, marking a new stage in revitalizing Japan’s semiconductor industry and Japan–Taiwan cooperation in the context of the U.S.-led free world’s high-tech strategic deterrence against communist China. TSMC’s sharing of cutting-edge semiconductor technology with neighboring Japan would help improve the geopolitical status of Taiwan and Japan while facing potential threats from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Taiwan’s newly elected president and current vice president, Lai Ching-Te, hailed the plant’s construction and commissioning as significant for deepening the Taiwan–Japan industrial alliance and taking on the next era in computer technology together....

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