Japan

Over 50 years ago, the company chose South Wales to established its first European manufacturing plant, and it has made over 50 million Raspberry Pi products at its UK Technology Centre in Bridgend. Japanese Ambassador to the UK Hiroshi Suzuki and Sony UK TEC MD Rob Wilson at the Sony UK Technology Centre in Pencoed, Bridgend, Wales “We are proud ...

Japan is investing $660 million in ASSB (All-Solid-State-Battery) R&D with the target of commercialising the technology by around 2030. Japan possesses the most ASSB-related patents in the world and has been steadily establishing a supply chain over recent years with the target of achieving mass production, reports TrendForce. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced the “Battery Supply ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have invented a new component for all-optical computing, that might bring this interesting technology out into the light. Optical computing is tempting but unwieldy technology. In principle it can be inherently parallel – a wavefront is effectively a 2D matrix of intensity (or phase, or polarisation) values, and if this is processed through an ...

Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) is spending Y6.5bn (~$41m) on a quantum computer from Massachusetts-based QuEra Computing. It will be installed alongside an Nvidia-based supercomputer called ABCI-Q. The aim is to “develop a hybrid quantum-classical computing platform, where quantum computing technology complements AIST’s ABCI-Q supercomputer with the goal of creating a platform for high-fidelity simulations ...

A new report is highlighting opportunities for UK quantum computing companies in Japan. The country is investing to accelerate the development of commercial applications in fields such as chemistry, financial services and logistics optimisation, highlights Intralink, a business development consultancy. The report has been prepared by as part of the UK-APAC Tech Growth Programme, which the company is delivering for ...

Four UK technology companies – including a space situational awareness specialist – have been selected to receive support from the UK-APAC Tech Growth Programme, to help accelerate plans for expansion in Japan. Aimed at UK technology startups headquartered in the UK, the programme is a government-backed initiative run by Intralink, a business development consultancy. The latest four companies to be ...

On Saturday TSMC opened its first Japanese fab in Kumamoto, on the island of Kyushu. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attended via video link and his government announced it would give TSMC $4.85 billion in subsidies to build a second fab in Kumamoto bringing total subsidies for the two fabs to $8 billion. Kishida said that the importance of the ...

Researchers at Chiba University in Japan have uncovered a rule of organic solar cell materials that could guide their development, or at least stop people hunting for the impossible. It is that the exciton binding energy in a material is a quarter of its transport bandgap, regardless of the material. “A previously unpredicted nature of exciton binding energies in organic ...

Axelspace Holdings, an Earth Observation and microsatellite specialist, has completed a ¥6.24 billion Series D funding round, equivalent to $44.0 million. Bringing the cumulative amount of equity financing to approximately ¥14.3 billion, the latest investments came from SMBC-GB Growth I Investment Limited Partnership, 31VENTURES, KURONEKO Innovation Fund and other venture capital and corporate investors. Axelspace says the funding will be ...

Hamamatsu Photonics has introduced a UV model of its ‘micro’ spectrometer series. C16767MA is sensitive across 190 to 440nm with a typical resolution of 5.5nm (FWHM, so ±2.25nm to 50%). Update: scroll down for how it works, probably Vital statistics are 20.1 x 12.5 x 10.1mm and 5g. “For example, C16767MA can be mounted in water quality monitors, analysing the ...