According to the Nikkei News recently, Japan will allocate 350 billion yen to cooperate with the United States to build an advanced semiconductor research center. In addition, the supplementary budget of the Japanese government will also include a budget of 450 billion yen for advanced process chip production and a budget of 370 billion yen for ensuring the supply of semiconductor materials.

It is reported that the above-mentioned cooperative research center will be established before the end of the year, and the Japan US joint venture hopes to have a mass production capacity of 2nm process chips after 2025. It is reported that IBM is one of the candidate partners in the United States.

According to the Japanese Economic News, in July this year, Japan and the United States cooperated in the mass production of semiconductors. The governments of Japan and the United States held the first "Economic2plus2" conference in Washington, the capital of the United States, on July 29. It was mentioned in the conference that Japan and the United States jointly developed 2-nanometer semiconductors. Japan established a "new generation semiconductor production technology research and development center (temporary name)" before the end of the year, It is planned to mass produce 2nm semiconductor in Japan in 2025.

The industry expressed great surprise at this news. Because the chip technology in Japan still stays at 45nm. After 45nm, it is 32nm, 22nm, 16/14nm, 10nm, 7nm, 5nm, 3nm, 2nm. If we leap from 45nm to 2nm in the past two years, we need to cross nine generations of miniaturization.