Japan to part fund TSMC plantSUBSIDY: Whether the government would pay for half of the second TSMC plant would depend on what type of chips are to be made there, Yoshihiro Seki said The Japanese government is to pay for a significant part of a second Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) factory in southern Kumamoto Prefecture, leaders of the ruling party’s lawmaker coalition on chips said. Giving no support would be out of the question after the government pledged to shoulder half the cost of the first Kumamoto plant, said Akira Amari and Yoshihiro Seki, chairman and secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party’s group on semiconductors. Amari said about one-third of the cost is the norm for these types of projects, and the amount of support for the first was unusually large. The subsidies would
