Kirk here: “TSMC will soon announce a plan to build its second wafer fab in Japan, according to industry sources. The fab will be involved in 6nm process manufacturing, and the Japanese government has pledged at least JPY750 billion (US$4.96 billion) in subsidies…”
A billion yen here, a billion yen there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. To put it in perspective, the budget for the entire government of Kumamoto Prefecture (education, public works, the whole shebang) was JPY900 billion last year so a figure that is close to the budget of the entire prefectural government will go to one factory.
