TSMC officially announced the opening of the Kumamoto plant on February 24 to lay out the second fa

Mondo Technology Updated on 2024-02-19

According to industry sources, TSMC's Kumamoto joint venture factory JASM is scheduled to hold a grand opening ceremony on February 24, when the company's founder Zhang Zhongmou, current chairman Liu Deyin, president Wei Zhejia and other core executives will attend together.

According to the news, Apple asked Sony to speed up the CIS production of the Kumamoto factory, so the factory has begun trial production, testing the electrical parameters of the equipment, improving the product condition, improving the production yield, etc., with an initial planning capacity of 3,000 pieces per month.

In 2021, TSMC announced that it would go to Japan to build a joint venture with Sony and Denso Corporation to build a wafer factory, which will start construction in April 2022 and receive a subsidy of 476 billion yen from Japan. The Kumamoto plant has a planned monthly production capacity of 550,000 pieces, with a total investment of 11 trillion yen, the company is expected to produce a 28nm process.

Semiconductor industry experts believe that the Kumamoto plant will become an important base for TSMC to respond to customer geopolitics and the global layout of the first chain resilience needs. In addition, it is worth noting that at the beginning of February this year, TSMC announced the construction of a second wafer fab in Kumamoto, Japan, with an approved rate of no more than 52The capital increase of Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (JASM) was US$6.2 billion, and the capital increase of its 100% owned subsidiary, TSMC Arizona was approved at a limit of not more than US$5 billion.

TSMC and Sony announced in 2021 that the Kumamoto Prefecture factory will soon be put into production, and rumors of a "second factory in Japan" have also been confirmed. Sony and Denso have already participated in the investment, and Toyota Motor Corporation will also hold a minority stake in JASM. After the latest round of investment, TSMC will hold JASM 86Sony, Denso and Toyota will each hold a 5% stake. 5% and 2% equity.

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