Will TSMC launch be the first step in Japan's semiconductor "revitalization"? |NHK. A factory built in Kumamoto Prefecture by TSMC, the world's largest Taiwanese company in the contract production of semiconductors, has started operations.

Construction of second factory for cutting-edge semiconductor has also been decided. Total investment for the two factories is expected to be more than $20 billion, or more than 3 trillion yen in Japanese yen, and the Japanese government will provide up to 1.2 trillion yen.