Several current and former TSMC employees are accused of stealing the company’s 2nm trade secrets, with the group allegedly working to transmit the data to Japanese startup Rapidus. According to ...

TSMC is investigating a potential leak of sensitive 2nm process technology details, specifically hundreds of technical photos ...

Taiwanese authorities have detained three current and former employees of the world’s largest chip manufacturer, Taiwan ...

Stolen trade secrets relating to 2-nm technology may have been leaked to Rapidus. There is now talk of nine suspects.

Rapidus is also developing a Process Development Kit compatible with IIM-1's 2nm process, and will release it to advance ...

Rapidus is the first company to install advanced EUV machinery in Japan. Additionally on April 1, 2025, the company successfully completed EUV exposure, approximately three months after the ...

Rapidus employs just 200 people, compared with more than 73,000 at TSMC, which is also hiring workers for its new factory in Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto.

Japan's state-backed chip venture Rapidus will need about 7 trillion yen ($54 billion) of mostly taxpayer money to begin mass producing advanced logic chips in around 2027, its chairman, Tetsuro ...

Japanese government-backed startup Rapidus Corp. said it has hired more than 200 people in a bid to create a cutting-edge chip foundry by 2027 and challenge leader Taiwan Semiconductor ...

Less than three years after its foundation, Rapidus exposes the first wafers with 2-nanometer structures. Series production is set to follow in 2027.

--Rapidus Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors, and multinational technology company IBM, today announced a joint development partnership aimed at establishing mass ...

Rapidus, which in February picked Chitose, near Sapporo, as the site for a cutting-edge two-nanometre chip factory, previously secured an initial 70 billion yen funding from the government.