SME Daily on the 28th cited industry sources saying SK Hynix has begun
preliminary construction, including foundation work, at a wafer fab site in
Japan’s Tohoku region. Sources say it is unclear whether the project would be
run independently or in partnership with Kioxia. SK Hynix states the Japan
The memory-fab project remains under evaluation with no further progress. The
The company is also asking Korean component suppliers to ramp output to address
memory-chip shortages. If confirmed, the site would accelerate deployment of
memory capacity in Northeast Japan and, alongside TSMC’s Kyushu and Rapidus’s
Hokkaido projects, form a Japan semiconductor production triangle.
