Yoichiro Ando
Recent Posts
Six Leading Startups Driving Japan's AI Innovation
November 15, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) is on the verge of transforming entire industries as it gears up to power semiconductor industry innovation and growth, thrusting the technology to front and center at SEMICON Japan 2019, December 12-14 at the Tokyo Big...
Japan – A Thriving, Highly Versatile Chip Manufacturing Region
October 3, 2018
On June 1st, 2018, Toshiba sold Toshiba Memory, Toshiba’s memory business, to an investment group led by Bain Capital. Toshiba Memory was then owned by a consortium of American, Japanese and Korean companies.
IBM, Nissan and Toshiba Talk Computing and Smart Car Innovations: Key Takeaways from SEMI Japan Members Day
July 19, 2018
The Japan semiconductor manufacturing supply chain is a global semiconductor industry workhorse, producing about one third of world’s chip equipment and more than half of its semiconductor materials. In contributing the vast majority of these...