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CTOnews.com July 3 news, TSMC recently held a press conference in Yokohama, Japan, to talk about Japan's business situation. Zhang Kaiwen, senior vice president of business development of TSMC, said that TSMC is currently building factories in Japan and the United States, among which the Kumamoto plant in Japan will focus on launching 12nm / 16nm and 22nm / 28nm production lines.

However, when asked by the media whether there are plans to build more advanced manufacturing plants in Japan, Zhang Kaiwen said: "I do not rule out this possibility. In response to Rapidus 'announcement that it will mass-produce 2nm chips, Zhang Kaiwen said: "I believe TSMC (the 2nm process) can bring first-class performance to the industry's top chips. "

TSMC Japan President Seiji Onodera said that TSMC's sales in Japan increased from US $150 million in the first year (1997).(CTOnews.com Note: currently about 1.089 billion yuan) has steadily increased to 600 million US dollars in 2010 (currently about 4.356 billion yuan) and 3.8 billion US dollars in 2022 (currently about 27.588 billion yuan). Japan is the fastest growing region for TSMC sales last year. The cumulative number of TSMC wafers shipped to Japan has reached 9.212 million, reaching 1.3 million in 2022 alone.

According to the data released at the meeting, the sales volume of TSMC in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 (April-June) was US $16.72 billion (currently about RMB 121.387 billion), among which 5nm process accounted for the highest proportion, accounting for 31%, 7nm accounted for 20%, and the total proportion of the two exceeded 50%. In addition, Zhang Kaiwen also said that TSMC will start mass production of 2nm GAA (Gate All Around) process "N2" in 2025.

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