Prime Minister Fumio Kishida asked top executives of foreign semiconductor manufacturers to aggressively invest in Japan and cooperate with Japanese companies during a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on Thursday.
Semiconductors are becoming increasingly important from the perspective of economic security, and he hopes to strengthen the competitiveness of the semiconductor industry with the help of major overseas companies.
The attendees were seven top executives from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.; U.S. firms Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Micron Technology, Inc. and Applied Materials, Inc.; Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea; and imec, a Belgian research and development organization. It is rare for executives from major global chip makers to gather for such a meeting.
