{"id":200580,"date":"2024-12-01T23:27:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T05:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/japan-ramps-up-tech-ambitions-with-65-bn-for-ai-chips"},"modified":"2024-12-01T23:27:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T05:27:41","slug":"japan-ramps-up-tech-ambitions-with-65-bn-for-ai-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/japan-ramps-up-tech-ambitions-with-65-bn-for-ai-chips","title":{"rendered":"Japan ramps up tech ambitions with $65 bn for AI, chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-ramps-up-tech-ambitions-with-65-bn-for-ai-chips2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan is readying a $65-billion push in microchips and artificial intelligence aimed at reclaiming its status as a global tech leader and meeting the urgent challenges of its aging, shrinking population.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-trillion-yen package, which lawmakers could approve this week, is also seen as preparation for an uncertain world as fears grow of a potential Chinese invasion of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/chip\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chip<\/a> powerhouse Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>But analysts warn that question marks remain over worker shortages and whether Japan can generate enough electricity for energy-hungry AI data centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is readying a $65-billion push in microchips and artificial intelligence aimed at reclaiming its status as a global tech leader and meeting the urgent challenges of its aging, shrinking population. The 10-trillion-yen package, which lawmakers could approve this week, is also seen as preparation for an uncertain world as fears grow of a potential [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}