Rapidus × Cadence : le Japon industrialise l'agent-chip-design
Nikkei rapporte le 17 juillet un partenariat Rapidus/Cadence sur des outils d'agent IA pour la conception de puces - la souveraineté japonaise s'attaque à l'EDA.
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SoftBank, Sony and Honda lock in Japan's AI stack with Nvidia at the center
Nikkei Asia documente l'alignement de SoftBank, Sony et Honda sur une pile IA japonaise commune, servie par Nvidia. Après Toyota (Woven City), Fujitsu et Yaskawa, le trio grand public boucle la boucle : Nvidia devient l'OS de l'industrie japonaise.
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Nvidia moves into Toyota's Woven City: physical AI gets its first company town
Nvidia is partnering with Toyota's Woven City on physical AI hardware and software. The reason it matters: Woven City is not a demo - it's an actual populated test bed, and Nvidia just booked the seat next to the engineers.
hier 9 9
Nvidia et Mitsubishi Heavy : quand le fabricant de GPU va chercher un chaudronnier
Refroidissement et gestion de l'énergie : Nvidia discute avec un géant industriel japonais. Le signal est plus intéressant que l'accord - la contrainte est passée du silicium à la thermique.
14/07/2026 à 22h30 9 6
Japan's humanoid moment: Mitsubishi Motors and Fanuc pull robots into daily production
Mitsubishi Motors will mass-produce humanoid robots for its own factories (1,000/month by 2027, via a University of Tokyo spin-out). Fanuc + Taisei doubled a warehouse's space efficiency with AI. Japan is not talking about humanoids - it's ordering them.
11/07/2026 à 11h41 11 7
Concrete follows the models: Mitsubishi Estate's $9bn data-center bet meets SEA's power wall
Japan's largest developer commits $9bn to a data-center building spree, just as Southeast Asia's AI ambitions collide with a grid that can't keep up. The AI cycle's next phase is a real-estate and electricity story - and Asia is where it's playing out first.
11/07/2026 à 11h41 10 8