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TSMC Japan (JASM Kumamoto)

TSMC's Japan fab, Sony/Denso backed

JASM (Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing) is TSMC's Kumamoto fab JV with Sony and Denso, with a second fab underway. It diversifies mature/specialty node supply off Taiwan and anchors Japan's METI-subsidized semiconductor revival, feeding automotive and edge-AI silicon.

Partners

Sony, Denso, METI

Node

12-28nm mature

How it fits the stack

TSMC Japan (JASM Kumamoto) with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.

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TSMC Japan (JASM Kumamoto) in the AI stack. TSMC Japan (JASM Kumamoto) with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.

Graph data (text) — 3 entities, 2 relationships
  • TSMC Japan (JASM Kumamoto)depends onJapan (METI / Rapidus)
  • TSMC Japan (JASM Kumamoto)hostsTSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)