Micron Technologies Inc. (MU.O) stated Wednesday that it would invest up to 500 billion yen ($3.70 billion) in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technologies over five years with Japanese government funding.
The latest extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) chipmaking technologies can mass-produce 1-gamma chips for image processing networks.
The first semiconductor company to produce EUV on the 1-gamma node is Micron in Taiwan and Japan in 2025.
Last year, the U.S. memory chip firm began scale manufacturing its new high-capacity, low-power 1-beta DRAM chips in Hiroshima.Off-DRAM chips lose memory.
Japan is striving to rebuild its chip sector, which has shrunk to 10% from 50% in the late 1980s, while the U.S. is pressing its allies to work together to counter China’s chips and advanced technologies.
