TSMC Japan
3DIC R&D Center

TSMC Japan 3DIC R&D Center (JRDC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC), a pioneer in the dedicated foundry business model. Located in Ibaraki Prefecture, JRDC is TSMC's first R&D facility equipped with clean room aside from Taiwan to enhance the collaboration with partners in Japan to pursue research into the next generations of three-dimensional silicon stacking and advanced packaging technologies. These technologies will enable system-level innovations to increase computing performance and integrate more functionality, opening a new path for driving semiconductor technology forward in addition to the industry’s conventional path of shrinking transistor size.

TSMC established its Japan 3DIC R&D Center subsidiary in March 2021, and the construction of a clean room facility in the Tsukuba Center of AIST completed in June 2022. The TSMC Japan 3DIC R&D Center drives research and development of state-of-the-art and future 3D IC packaging material, process, and equipment technologies in collaboration with Japanese ecosystem including industries, domestic research institutes and universities possessing strengths in semiconductor materials and equipment.

TSMC Japan 3DIC R&D Center conducts R&D in collaboration with Japanese partners, with a focus on materials development, aims for system-level innovation in the semiconductor industry. Japan's strengths in materials, substrates, and equipment have great potential. We will support the leap of Japanese companies to the global market and contribute to the innovation of the semiconductor ecosystem as a whole.

Yutaka Emoto
Vice President and Center General Manager,
TSMC Japan 3DIC R&D Center, Inc.