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Nvidia CEO Huang

Jensen Huang, CEO of U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp., speaks at the annual CES technology show in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, 2026.

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Nvidia CEO Huang

Jensen Huang, CEO of U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp., speaks at the annual CES technology show in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, 2026.

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Nvidia CEO Huang

Jensen Huang, CEO of U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp., speaks at the annual CES technology show in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, 2026.

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Chipmaker Kioxia debuts in one of Japan's biggest IPOs this year

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - Japanese chipmaker Kioxia Holdings Corp. President Nobuo Hayasaka rings the bell during a ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2024, as his company debuts on the TSE's top-tier Prime Market the same day in one of the country's biggest initial public offerings this year. (Kyodo)

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Nvidia CEO Huang, Softbank CEO Son

U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang (L) talks with SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son during an event on artificial intelligence in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang delivers a speech at an event on artificial intelligence in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang delivers a speech at an event on artificial intelligence in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang delivers a speech at an event on artificial intelligence in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024.

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CORRECTED: CORRECTED: PM Kishida at chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to the press on July 24, 2024, at the construction site of a semiconductor factory in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan, to be operated by Rapidus Corp., the government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022. (Pool photo)

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CORRECTED: PM Kishida at chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from R) is pictured with Rapidus Corp. Chairman Tetsuro Higashi on July 24, 2024, as he visits the construction site of a semiconductor factory in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan, to be operated by a government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022. (Pool photo)

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Chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 1, 2024, shows the construction site for a semiconductor factory in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan, to be operated by Rapidus Corp., a Japanese government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022.

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Chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 1, 2024, shows the construction site for a semiconductor factory in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan, to be operated by Rapidus Corp., a Japanese government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022.

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Chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 1, 2024, shows the construction site for a semiconductor factory in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan, to be operated by Rapidus Corp., a Japanese government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022.

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Chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 1, 2024, shows the construction site for a semiconductor factory in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan, to be operated by Rapidus Corp., a Japanese government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022.

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Chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 1, 2024, shows the construction site for a semiconductor factory in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan, to be operated by Rapidus Corp., a Japanese government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022.

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Chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 1, 2024, shows the construction site for a semiconductor factory in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan, to be operated by Rapidus Corp., a Japanese government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022.

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Chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 1, 2024, shows the construction site for a semiconductor factory in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan, to be operated by Rapidus Corp., a Japanese government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022.

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Chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Photo taken in Chitose in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on April 2, 2024, shows the construction site for a semiconductor factory to be operated by Rapidus Corp., a Japanese government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022.

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Chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Photo taken in Chitose in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on April 2, 2024, shows the construction site for a semiconductor factory to be operated by Rapidus Corp., a Japanese government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022.

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Chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Photo taken in Chitose in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on April 2, 2024, shows the construction site for a semiconductor factory to be operated by Rapidus Corp., a Japanese government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022.

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TSMC opens 1st Japan chip plant

(From L, front row) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. CEO C.C. Wei, Sony Group CEO Kenichiro Yoshida, Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda and Denso Corp. President Shinnosuke Hayashi are pictured after the opening ceremony for TSMC's first factory in Japan on Feb. 24, 2024, in Kikuyo in Kumamoto Prefecture.

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METI chief meets with Nvidia CEO

Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura (front, R) holds talks with U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang (front, L) in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2023.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang, CEO of U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp., speaks to reporters on Dec. 4, 2023, after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at his office in Tokyo.

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PSMC Chairman Frank Huang

Frank Huang, chairman of Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. PSMC and Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc. said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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SBI Holdings Chairman Kitao

Yoshitaka Kitao, chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. SBI and Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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SBI Holdings Chairman Kitao

Yoshitaka Kitao, chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. SBI and Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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Press conference by Japan's SBI, Taiwan's PSMC

Yoshitaka Kitao (L), chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., and Frank Huang, chairman of Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., shake hands at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. The two companies said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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Press conference by Japan's SBI, Taiwan's PSMC

Yoshitaka Kitao (L), chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., and Frank Huang, chairman of Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., attend a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. The two companies said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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SBI Holdings Chairman Kitao

Yoshitaka Kitao, chairman and president of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2023. SBI and Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. said they have selected the village of Ohira in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the location for their planned joint chip factory.

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Groundbreaking ceremony for chip factory in Hokkaido

Atsuyoshi Koike, president of semiconductor venture Rapidus Corp., breaks ground during a ceremony in Chitose in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Sept. 1, 2023. The Japanese government-subsidized chip venture was set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022.

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Groundbreaking ceremony for chip factory in Hokkaido

Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura (front, L) attends a groundbreaking ceremony in Chitose in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Sept. 1, 2023, for a semiconductor factory to be operated by Rapidus Corp., a Japanese government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022.

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Panasonic joins artificial photosynthesis field

OSAKA, Japan - Panasonic Corp.'s experimental equipment for an artificial photosynthesis system is photographed on April 16, 2014. Application of light to semiconductor compounds placed in the apparatus on the left resulted in the generation of methane from the adjacent apparatus on the right.

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Sony's Yamagata Technology Center opens

YAMAGATA, Japan - An opening ceremony is held for Sony Semiconductor Corp.'s Yamagata Technology Center for manufacturing image sensors in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 8, 2014.

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Renesas Electronics to expand tie-up with Taiwan firm

TOKYO, Japan - Shinichi Iwamoto (R), senior vice president of Japanese semiconductor maker Renesas Electronics Corp., and Lin Cheng-Ming, a senior official of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on May 28, 2012. Renesas Electronics said it will expand its business tie-up with the Taiwan firm by outsourcing production of its mainstay microcontrollers as the struggling Japanese company tries to improve its financial standing.

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Electronics mulls shedding up to 14,000 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 26, 2012, shows a building housing the head office of Renesas Electronics Corp. in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. The struggling major semiconductor maker is reportedly considering slashing up to around 14,000 jobs, or around 30 percent of its entire workforce, while it is in talks to sell a factory in Japan to a Taiwanese company.

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Sanyo Electric to sell semiconductor unit to ON Semiconductor

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Sanyo Electric Co. Vice President Susumu Koike, ON Semiconductor Corp. President Keith Jackson and Sanyo Semiconductor Co. President Teruo Tabata shake hands in Tokyo on July 15, 2010, after Sanyo Electric agreed to sell its semiconductor unit to a wholly owned subsidiary of the U.S. chipmaker for 33 billion yen.

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Sanyo Electric to sell semiconductor unit to ON Semiconductor

TOKYO, Japan - Sanyo Electric Co. Vice President Susumu Koike speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on July 15, 2010. The company announced it has agreed to sell its semiconductor unit Sanyo Semiconductor Co. to a wholly owned subsidiary of the U.S. chipmaker ON Semiconductor Corp. for 33 billion yen.

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Toshiba sees FY08 operating loss of 280 bil. yen, 1st red ink in 7 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida bows at the end of a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 29. The struggling Japanese electronics giant said it will lay off 4,500 temporary workers in its loss-making semiconductor and liquid crystal display businesses and it expects to incur group net and operating losses of 280 billion yen each for fiscal 2008 through March, its first red-ink figures in seven years.

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Toshiba to focus investment on semiconductors: President Nishida

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida speaks at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 9. He bared a medium-range business plan in which Toshiba will invest 550 billion yen on semiconductor operations, half of the company's total capital investment in three years through fiscal 2007.

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Sharp devises image sensor that can take photos facing sun

OSAKA, Japan - A digital camera equipped with an image sensor developed by Sharp Corp. is capable of taking clear photos even when pointed at a bright light source (bottom) in contrast with the same image taken by a conventional digital camera (top). Sharp announced on April 14 that it has jointly developed the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor with the Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart of Germany.

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Sharp forms CPU on glass substrate

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. said on Oct. 22 it has succeeded in forming an 8-bit central processing unit (CPU) on a glass substrate (photo), paving the way for the development of futuristic ultra-thin ''sheet computers'' and ''sheet television sets.'' The first technology of its kind in the world was developed jointly by Sharp and Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, on the basis of their jointly developed continuous grain (CG) silicon technology. The technology could lead to the development of notebook personal computers and 15-inch TVs as thin as 1 mm and weighing only around 300 grams.

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(2)Court denies professor's claim to patent for landmark invention

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura (L), a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, speaks at a news conference Sept. 19 after the Tokyo District Court acknowledged Nichia Corp.'s ownership of the patent for a key semiconductor device, rejecting a suit filed by him, the inventor of the blue-color light-emitting diode (LED).

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Toshiba, Fujitsu agree on comprehensive tie-up

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Okamura (L), president of Toshiba Corp., and Naoyuki Akikusa, president of Fujitsu Ltd., shake hands at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on June 19. They announced that the two companies have agreed to form a comprehensive tie-up in semiconductor operations.

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Toshiba to terminate commodity DRAM business

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Tadashi Okamura announces at a press conference in Toshiba's head office in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Dec. 18 that the company will pull out of commodity dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips next year in a reorganization aimed at securing profitability in its semiconductor business in fiscal 2002.

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Toshiba to cut 20,000 group jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Tokyo head office of Toshiba Corp., which was reported Aug. 25 to be planning to slash 20,000 jobs from its group workforce of 190,000 to cope with deteriorating earnings in its semiconductor business amid the worldwide slump in the information technology sector.

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Blue-color LED developer sues company for patent, reward

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Shuji Nakamura (file photo), developer of the blue-color light-emitting diode (LED), filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court on Aug. 23, demanding 2 billion yen and recognition that the semiconductor patent belongs to him. Nakamura, professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sued Nichia Corp., where he worked as an engineer until 1999, saying the company made unreasonable profits through its exclusive use of the blue-color LED patent.

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Rapidus, IBM to develop advanced chips

IBM Corp. Senior Vice President Dario Gil speaks at a joint press conference with new Japanese semiconductor producer Rapidus Corp. in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2022, after the two companies signed a deal to jointly develop next-generation chips. Rapidus was set up through investments by Toyota Motor Corp., Sony Group Corp. and six other major Japanese companies in August.

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Rapidus, IBM to develop advanced chips

Atsuyoshi Koike (R), president of new Japanese semiconductor producer Rapidus Corp., attends a joint press conference with IBM Corp. in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2022, after the two companies signed a deal to jointly develop next-generation chips. Rapidus was set up through investments by Toyota Motor Corp., Sony Group Corp. and six other major Japanese companies in August.

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Rapidus, IBM to develop advanced chips

Atsuyoshi Koike (C, L), president of new Japanese semiconductor producer Rapidus Corp., and IBM Corp. Senior Vice President Dario Gil (C, R) pose for photos during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2022, after the two companies signed a deal to jointly develop next-generation chips. Rapidus was set up through investments by Toyota Motor Corp., Sony Group Corp. and six other major Japanese companies in August.

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Rapidus, IBM to develop advanced chips

Atsuyoshi Koike (2nd from L), president of new Japanese semiconductor producer Rapidus Corp., and IBM Corp. Senior Vice President Dario Gil (C) pose for photos during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2022, after the two companies signed a deal to jointly develop next-generation chips. Rapidus was set up through investments by Toyota Motor Corp., Sony Group Corp. and six other major Japanese companies in August.