{"id":1003460,"date":"2026-04-17T09:12:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003460"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:47:07","slug":"air-liquide-to-invest-236-million-in-japan-to-support-next-generation-ai-chip-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/17\/air-liquide-to-invest-236-million-in-japan-to-support-next-generation-ai-chip-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Liquide to invest $236 million in Japan to support next-generation AI chip production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Liquide said on Thursday it would invest 200 million euros ($236 million) in Japan to build, own and operate two \u200cnew \u2060industrial \u2060gas production units in Hiroshima, under a long-term agreement with a global semiconductor leader expanding its advanced chip manufacturing capacity. <\/p>\n<p>The French industrial gases \u2060group said \u200cthe plants, due to start up by the \u2060end of 2028, would supply large volumes of ultra-high-purity nitrogen, oxygen and argon used in the production of next-generation chips for artificial intelligence applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Liquide said on Thursday it would invest 200 million euros ($236 million) in Japan to build, own and operate two \u200cnew \u2060industrial \u2060gas production units in Hiroshima, under a long-term agreement with a global semiconductor leader expanding its advanced chip manufacturing capacity. The French industrial gases \u2060group said \u200cthe plants, due to start up by the \u2060end of 2028, would supply large volumes of ultra-high-purity nitrogen, oxygen and argon used in the production of next-generation chips for artificial intelligence applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003460","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}