[HIGHLIGHTS] Semiconductors: Taiwanese group TSMC inaugurates a new factory in Japan

Semiconductors: Taiwanese group TSMC inaugurates a new factory in Japan. TSMC's first Japanese factory, located in Kyûshû, in the south of the country, cost more than 8 billion euros, subsidized up to 40% by the government.

Japan has a lot of catching up to do. At the end of the 1980s, Japanese manufacturers produced more than 50% of the semiconductors used worldwide. But they have been supplanted by their more competitive Taiwanese or South Korean competitors.