Rapidus fab roadmap examined — first new leading-edge chipmaker in decades has one Hokkaido fab 16%
www.tomshardware.com - By Luke James - 7/8/2026, 4:29 PM
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Rapidus is bidding Japan's entire return to leading-edge logic on one fab in Chitose, Hokkaido, and the schedule now turns on a 2027 mass-production target for a 2nm process that no high-volume customer has yet committed to. Since opening the IIM-1 pilot line in April last year, the company has run wafers through Japan's first... more