Rapidus, Japan's state-backed bid to make leading-edge logic chips at home, now has two engineering centers in India. HCLTech opened them in Bengaluru and Hubli, with a ceremony on October 26 at HCLTech's headquarters in Noida. Their job is to do semiconductor engineering for Rapidus: mask design, design infrastructure, process design kit (PDK) development, design technology … [Read more...] about Rapidus Taps HCLTech Engineers in India as Japan’s 2nm Foundry Still Hunts for Its First Signed Customer
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Fujifilm Spends 10 Billion Yen to Make Five Times More LTO Tape as AI Data Centers Run Short of Storage
The company most people know for cameras and instant film is making its biggest bet yet on a storage medium plenty of people assumed was finished. Fujifilm will spend about 10 billion yen, roughly $63 million, at its Odawara site in Kanagawa to raise data tape shipment capacity to about five times its fiscal 2025 level. The work runs from fiscal 2026 through fiscal 2028 and … [Read more...] about Fujifilm Spends 10 Billion Yen to Make Five Times More LTO Tape as AI Data Centers Run Short of Storage