Japan’s ruling party to allocate $6.5B annual support for chipmakers and AI

The ruling party in Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), plans to allocate approximately ¥1 trillion ($6.5 billion) annually to manufacture chips and support the development of artificial ￰0￱ government will allocate this money into the standard annual budget, rather than a one-time budget, so the support remains constant and more ￰1￱ global market for semiconductors has grown fast over the past 10 years, largely driven by consumer electronics, electric vehicles, and ￰2￱ has been significant government and private investment in chip manufacturing in countries such as the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, and ￰3￱ has fallen behind, and analysts caution that the state risks falling ever farther behind in next-generation chip technologies if it does not make regular ￰4￱ puts funding for chips and AI in the annual budget The Japanese government has consistently utilized supplementary budgets to support the semiconductor ￰5￱ budgets were only added as needed, so chip companies never knew how much they would receive each year or whether there would be additional funds in the ￰6￱ a result, the industry struggled with slow growth for years, and manufacturers had to wait for new budget decisions before starting new ￰7￱ also came at irregular times, as the government would only approve extra budgets when certain leaders pushed for them or the economy entered a difficult ￰8￱ would not invest large amounts of money because they were unsure whether the support would continue long enough for them to complete their projects.

However, that’s now changing because the government has allocated ¥1 trillion ($6.5 billion) for the annual budget starting in April ￰9￱ can now begin building new chip factories, which can take several years to complete and require significant ￰10￱ can also establish research centers to aid in the development of new technologies and create specialized training programs to expand their skilled ￰11￱ expands its chip and AI strategy under a long-term plan of ¥10 trillion Japan was once the biggest manufacturer of chip technologies used in computers, consumer electronics, and automobiles in the 1980s and ￰12￱ because the country never invested as much into the industry as others, it fell behind the United States, Taiwan , South Korea, and ￰13￱ government now aims to regain the strength it once had in the semiconductor industry and has already allocated approximately ¥5.7 trillion ($37.05 billion) since ￰14￱ Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba proposed a plan to provide more than ¥10 trillion ($65 billion) in public support over time to revitalize the country’s chip and AI ￰15￱ year, the country approved ¥1.5 trillion ($9.75 billion) to initiate the ￰16￱ the ¥10 trillion gradually, the government will continue to allocate more funds to enable companies to undertake large projects and achieve steady industry expansion.

There’s also the fact that such predictable, long-term government backing from Japan will most likely lure foreign chip makers to set up facilities in Japan, as well, since investors generally prefer markets with strong government support behind ￰17￱ funding will also help build stronger partnerships with companies and researchers in the ￰18￱ Europe, as these regions also aim to strengthen their chip ￰19￱ your project in front of crypto’s top minds? Feature it in our next industry report, where data meets impact.