Rapidus, Japan’s government-backed leading-edge chip startup, has got its first customer – Canon. Canon is going to order 2nm test chips designed by Synopsys to be fabbed at Rapidus’ Chitose site. Last month the company announced that it had raised $1.7bn from 32 private-sector companies (including Canon), with $634m of that coming from the government. Rapidus projects that it will need ...
Rapidus has announced a suite of AI design tools to support its Rapidus AI-Assisted Design Solution (Raads), a key initiative to helping to realise its Rapid and Unified Manufacturing Service (RUMS) concept. The technology approach will also be rebranded to Rapidus AI-Agentic Design Solution with multiple tools being released starting in 2026 and will be provided to customers together with ...
Rapidus has signed an MoU with Keysight Technologies to develop a PDK for its 2nm process to be delivered to initial customers by Q1 2026. Keysight’s semiconductor parametric tester technology, analysis solution and expertise in semiconductor manufacturing process optimisation will advance Rapidus’ Design-Manufacturing Co-Optimization (DMCO) concept. The two companies will identify the factors that contribute to improving PDK accuracy, ...
Rapidus, the Japan government-backed 2nm startup, says it has started the prototyping process for 2nm GAA ICs at its Innovative Integration for Manufacturing (IIM-1) foundry. IIM-1 uses a fully single-wafer front-end process in which adjustments can be made to a single wafer, inspected and if successful, applied to all subsequent wafers. Single wafer captures more data, enabling AI models to ...
Rapidus, which is due to produce its first prototype chips next month, has come under fire from politicians in Japan, reports the Nikkei. Rapidus needs $32 billion to get into production of 2nm chips by 2027, but has only received $9.6 billion. The government plans to put in another $674 million this year and is being pressured by parliamentarians to ...
A new chip company called Rapidus, backed by the government, is being set up in Japan to establish a 2nm logic process. Ten companies will participate including Toyota, Sony, Kioxia, NEC, NTT, Softbank and Denso with each company putting in $6.8 million. Leading the establishment of Rapidus has been Tetsuro Higashi formerly CEO of Tokyo Electron. Rapidus will be ...
