Micron to invest $9.6 billion in Japan AI memory chip plant

Summary

Micron Technology will invest 1.5 trillion yen (about $9.6 billion) to build a new memory chip plant in Hiroshima, Japan, focused on advanced chips used in AI workloads. The investment, reported by Nikkei and confirmed via Reuters, highlights how demand for AI compute is driving massive global capacity expansions in high-bandwidth and advanced memory, and strengthens Japan’s role as a strategic hub in the AI hardware supply chain.