TSMC expands Japan college collaboration amid worker shortage concern

Taiwan tech giant partners with Kumamoto University on chip research, personnel

20240408 TSMC Kumamoto plant

TSMC's first plant in the Kumamoto prefecture town of Kikuyo.

KOSUKE KONDO, Nikkei staff writer

KUMAMOTO, Japan -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's biggest contract chip maker, has expanded collaboration with Japanese universities amid growing concern over a shortage of workers for its brand-new chip factory in Kumamoto.

Kumamoto University announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding with TSMC in March to collaborate on research related to semiconductors and on talent development.

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