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Rapidus Corporation has secured 267.6 billion yen in fresh funding from the Japanese government and 32 private sector companies, tightening the country’s push to regain advanced chip manufacturing capability.
Of the total, 100 billion yen comes from the Information-Technology Promotion Agency under Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Rapidus was selected through a formal public process focused on ensuring stable domestic semiconductor production. The rest, 167.6 billion yen, comes from a broad coalition of industrial and financial heavyweights including Canon Inc., Fujitsu Limited, NTT, Inc., SoftBank Corporation and Sony Group Corporation.
This round, combined with earlier capital, takes stated capital and surplus to nearly 275 billion yen.
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The context matters. Japan has been investing aggressively in next generation semiconductor capacity. The country focuses on developing 2nm logic technology because of changing international relations which are affecting global supply chain operations. Rapidus aims to move from R&D into mass production by 2027. If it delivers, Japan does not just get a chip factory. It gets leverage in a supply chain that has become strategic infrastructure.
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