{"id":1020939,"date":"2026-07-15T07:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020939"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:29:51","slug":"tower-semiconductor-to-invest-3-billion-in-japan-backed-by-government-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/tower-semiconductor-to-invest-3-billion-in-japan-backed-by-government-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower Semiconductor to invest $3 billion in Japan, backed by government grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli chipmaker Tower Semiconductor said on Tuesday it will invest $3 billion to bolster chip manufacturing in Japan, including $1 billion in grants from the Japanese government. <\/p>\n<p>U.S.-listed shares of the company rose more than 18% in \u200cpremarket trading \u2060after \u2060the announcement, which is expected to support growing AI and data center demand. <\/p>\n<p>The move aims to help the company&#8217;s production of silicon photonics &#8211; which uses light to move data faster between AI chips &#8211; and silicon-germanium technology, which enables faster \u2060and more \u200cenergy-efficient semiconductor devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli chipmaker Tower Semiconductor said on Tuesday it will invest $3 billion to bolster chip manufacturing in Japan, including $1 billion in grants from the Japanese government. U.S.-listed shares of the company rose more than 18% in \u200cpremarket trading \u2060after \u2060the announcement, which is expected to support growing AI and data center demand. The move aims to help the company&#8217;s production of silicon photonics &#8211; which uses light to move data faster between AI chips &#8211; and silicon-germanium technology, which enables faster \u2060and more \u200cenergy-efficient semiconductor devices.<\/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-1020939","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\/1020939","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=1020939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020958,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020939\/revisions\/1020958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}