Air Liquide to Invest $236 Million in Japan to Support AI Chip Production

The investment is part of Japan’s strategy to revive its once global semiconductor industry.
Air Liquide to Invest $236 Million in Japan to Support AI Chip Production
Semiconductor chips on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture taken on Feb. 25, 2022. Florence Lo/Illustration/Reuters
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Air Liquide announced plans April 16 to invest 200 million euros ($236 million) to provide industrial gases in Hiroshima, Japan, to support the country’s goal of reviving its semiconductor industry in the global race to develop artificial intelligence (AI).

The French company will build, own, and operate two new industrial gas production units to produce gases needed to make cutting-edge chips that are central to AI technologies, according to Air Liquide.

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