


Sony Kenichiro Yoshida: Wei Zhejia's words in 2021 started the TSMC Japan factory project
According to Taiwanese media CNA, Sony President Kenichiro Yoshida recently revealed at the JASM opening ceremony of TSMC’s Kumamoto plant that the plan for the plant originated from a statement made by TSMC’s current president Wei Zhejia when the two sides met in 2021.
According to Kenichiro Yoshida, he brought the head of Sony’s semiconductor business unit to TSMC in January 2021 to discuss logic wafer procurement. At the beginning of the meeting between Sony and TSMC, Wei Zhejia said that TSMC was considering manufacturing in Japan and hoped that Sony would assist .
From this sentence, the focus of this meeting changed from procurement negotiations to production cooperation. Finally, the two parties announced the plan to establish JASM in November of that year. According to previous reprinted reports on this site, as early as mid-2019, Japan invited TSMC to build a factory in Japan, but the first negotiation ultimately failed in May 2020.
JASM’s next wafer fab plans to start shipping in 2027 and will employ an additional 1,700 employees, doubling the total number of employees in this cooperation project between TSMC and Japanese manufacturers. times.
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