Japan's gamble to turn island of flowers into global chip hub
www.bbc.com
The country once led the world in semiconductors and electronics, but over the years it fell behind Taiwan, South Korea and China.

The island of Hokkaido has long been an agricultural powerhouse – now Japan is investing billions to turn it into a global hub for advanced semiconductors.

  • brendansimms
    10·
    16 days ago

    sensationalist BBC headline makes it sound like a chip fab will span the entirety of Hokkaido. That aside, the winding down of globalization combined with a global arms buildup and a prioritized native manufacturing of semiconductors does not bode well for future peace. Clearly everyone relying on Taiwan was not good, but nobody relying on anybody might just be worse.

  • Fredselfish
    64·
    16 days ago

    Great just what it needs a bunch of AI data centers. We really are speed running our dismiss.

    • davad
      91·
      15 days ago

      A chip fab is related to AI data centers just as much as a corn farm is related to IKEA meatballs.

      If demand for meatballs goes up, you’ll want more cows which need more feed, which includes corn. But making more corn doesn’t cause more meatballs to show up at IKEA.

      • BellOP
        2·
        14 days ago

        Wait so the Japanese are gonna produce IKEA meatballs?

        /s