Given Japanese companies failed to make many successful semiconductor products in the past 20 years, I don’t have high hopes for this project.

Japan was dominated in 80-00 in high tech. But production costs is a major problem for them, given Korea then China flood the market with cheap and not too bad products in the market. Japan only have one major display manufacturer left even they invented most of the tech. Same thing for memory chips. The only semiconductor product that Japan still dominates is image sensor by Sony but the sensor don’t need to use latest chip making technology.

Also many major Japanese companies are too slow to react to market and too afraid of investment lost, but it makes sense in a way-just look at Toshiba, so they rather put money in bank than invest in new tech or manufacturing. This is kinda sad.