{"id":1001662,"date":"2026-04-07T12:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001662"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:52:33","slug":"not-just-data-centres-this-japanese-engineer-wants-to-build-computer-chips-on-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/07\/not-just-data-centres-this-japanese-engineer-wants-to-build-computer-chips-on-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Not just data centres, this Japanese engineer wants to build computer chips on Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atsuyoshi Koike has a dream that is \u2018literally\u2019 out of this world. He wants to manufacture computer chips on the Moon. Koike leads Rapidus, a Japanese government-backed tech company founded in 2022, and with billions of dollars in funding, company wants to muscle its way back to the top of the global semiconductor industry.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, if everything goes according to plan, Rapidus will start mass-producing cutting-edge microchips next year but Koike says that manufacturing chips on the moon may be a reality in 2040s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atsuyoshi Koike has a dream that is \u2018literally\u2019 out of this world. He wants to manufacture computer chips on the Moon. Koike leads Rapidus, a Japanese government-backed tech company founded in 2022, and with billions of dollars in funding, company wants to muscle its way back to the top of the global semiconductor industry. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, if everything goes according to plan, Rapidus will start mass-producing cutting-edge microchips next year but Koike says that manufacturing chips on the moon may be a reality in 2040s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}