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Rapidus fab roadmap examined — first new leading-edge chipmaker in decades has one Hokkaido fab, a 2027 deadline, and 60 potential customers

Summary by Tom's Hardware
Rapidus is bidding Japan's entire return to leading-edge logic on one fab in Chitose, Hokkaido, and the schedule now turns on a 2027 mass-production target for a 2nm process that no high-volume customer has yet committed to. Since opening the IIM-1 pilot line in April last year, the company has run wafers through Japan's first mass-production-grade EUV scanner, produced a 2nm gate-all-around prototype that reached its expected electrical charact…
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Tom's Hardware broke the news on Wednesday, July 8, 2026.
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