Foreign investment in the Japanese chip industry has reached 6 trillion yen

According to foreign media reports, foreign firms have invested 6 trillion yen (about $37 billion) in the Japanese chip industry. This figure has been further expanded with the recent announcement by Sony Group and the build-up of an image sensor plant. The power builder has invested 3 trillion yen in its two crystal-turning plants in Japan, the first of which began to produce a volume of logical chips in 2024 and the second is currently under construction. U.S. Light Technologies launched the Hiroshima County Plant Expansion Project last month, with a planned investment of 1.5 trillion yen in the production of advanced storage chips, which are essential for artificial intelligence data centres. Also in July, the Israeli chip manufacturer Tower Sem early on issued a announcement by Nductor that an investment of 600 billion yen would be made for light communications equipment chips for use in quantitative data centres。