{"id":980470,"date":"2025-12-16T07:34:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980470"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:17:21","slug":"japan-needs-a-niche-approach-to-get-back-in-the-chip-game-ntt-chairman-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/16\/japan-needs-a-niche-approach-to-get-back-in-the-chip-game-ntt-chairman-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan needs a niche approach to get back in the chip game, NTT chairman says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Japan needs to take a niche approach to chip manufacturing &#8211; rather than trying to compete on scale and price &#8211; as it aims to revive its once-mighty chip industry, the chairman of telecom heavyweight NTT told Reuters in an interview. <\/p>\n<p>NTT is one of a number of major Japanese corporations invested in Rapidus, the government-backed chipmaker that plans to start mass production of advanced semiconductors in 2027. Set up in 2022, Rapidus is central to the government&#8217;s $65 billion plan to boost the chip and artificial intelligence industries that was unveiled last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Japan needs to take a niche approach to chip manufacturing &#8211; rather than trying to compete on scale and price &#8211; as it aims to revive its once-mighty chip industry, the chairman of telecom heavyweight NTT told Reuters in an interview. NTT is one of a number of major Japanese corporations invested in Rapidus, the government-backed chipmaker that plans to start mass production of advanced semiconductors in 2027. Set up in 2022, Rapidus is central to the government&#8217;s $65 billion plan to boost the chip and artificial intelligence industries that was unveiled last year.<\/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-980470","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\/980470","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=980470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}