2024-02-26 11:34:34
In Japan, joint venture JASM opened its first semiconductor chip manufacturing plant on February 24. The national automobile industry will become one of the main customers of the company’s products.
The co-owners of JASM (Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing) are Taiwanese TSMC (the world leader in microchip production), Japanese Sony Semiconductor Solutions, DENSO and Toyota Motor. 86.5% of the shares belong to TSMC, 6% to Sony, 5.5% to DENSO, 2.0% to Toyota.
The factory is located in the south of Japan; the company will begin producing commercial products at the end of 2024. JASM is already building a second microchip production plant, which will be operational at the end of 2027.
The two factories will produce a total of over 2.4 million 300mm semiconductor wafers, the raw material for the production of integrated circuits, based on 40, 22/28, 12/16 and 6/7 nanometer processes.
JASM products will also be used in other branches of mechanical engineering, including the production of weapons and military equipment, computer stations and electronic devices.
Since 2020, TSMC has located all new semiconductor wafer production facilities exclusively outside of Taiwan – in Arizona in the USA, in Dresden in Germany and now in Japan.
Let us recall that the global semiconductor crisis that raged in 2020-2022 hit the automotive industry especially hard. The largest automobile concerns at that time repeatedly stopped their conveyors unscheduled due to the short supply of electronic components due to a shortage of chips.
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