Rapidus and IBM to Expand Collaboration to Create New Markets for 2nm-node semiconductors
On January 5th, Atsuyoshi Koike, Rapidus President and CEO, joined Dario Gil, IBM Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research, in a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and Yasutoshi Nishimura, Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, on January 5th in Washington, D.C.
During the meeting, the executives from the two companies provided an overview and an update of their joint development partnership, and announced further expansion of their partnership. Specifically, Rapidus and IBM will make collaborative efforts in creating new markets for the 2nm-node semiconductors to be produced by Rapidus in the latter half of the 2020s, including the high performance technology segment, to contribute to furthering sustainability.
Rapidus and IBM announced on December 13th last year that they have entered into a joint development partnership to advance logic scaling technology.
(Materials used during the meeting)
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