Rapidus ‘last opportunity’ to put Japan back on global chip map

TOKYO – Japan’s Rapidus project that brings together some of the world’s biggest companies is the “last opportunity” to put the country’s once-dominant semiconductor sector back on the global map, its chairman warned.And, while the company has the financial firepower of the government behind it, Tetsuro Higashi told AFP in an interview that he was under no illusions about the challenges ahead.”The entire world is becoming digitised. It is becoming crucially important for Japan to build a very strong digital technology industry,” said Higashi, an industry veteran and ex-president of Tokyo…