Japan’s Rapidus teams up with 17 firms to win customers for 2nm chips

Rapidus, Japan’s state-backed chipmaker, has signed up 17 chip design firms to help it win customers before it starts making 2-nanometre chips.

They include Synopsys and Cadence from the US, India’s Infosys, and Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing and Toppan, Jiji Press reported on Monday.

The partners will help clients design chips that suit the way Rapidus makes them. The aim is to turn that work into orders. So far, though, Rapidus has not named a single firm that has signed…