IBM is prioritizing helping Japan¡¯s chipmaking startup Rapidus, with a senior executive describing the budding foundry business as vital to securing long-term global supply.
Rapidus, a venture backed by some of Japan¡¯s biggest electronics firms, is turning IBM¡¯s 2-nanometer chip design into production-ready silicon and aims to fabricate such chips at scale in the latter half of this decade. The most advanced semiconductors today are built at the larger 3 nm node.
¡°When it comes to 2 nm technology, we are focusing our efforts on Rapidus and investing a great deal of resources to this project, even sacrificing some capacity that we could have used in other research,¡± said IBM Japan¡¯s Chief Technology Officer Norishige Morimoto. ¡°We want Rapidus to succeed. We want it to contribute to a stable supply of the chips we and the world need.¡±
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