TSMC and the University of Tokyo have inaugurated the “TSMC-UTokyo Lab,” marking TSMC’s first joint research facility with a university outside Taiwan. Located at UTokyo’s Asano campus, the lab will serve as a hub for collaborative research in advanced semiconductor technologies and as a platform for cultivating next-generation talent. This strategic initiative builds on a partnership that began in 2019, during which 21 joint research projects have been completed, and follows the signing of a formal strategic industrial-academic agreement in April 2025.
The new lab will focus on applied research in key semiconductor domains, including materials, devices, process technologies, metrology, packaging, and circuit design. Results will contribute to TSMC’s broader R&D and chip manufacturing roadmap while being shared through recurring technology symposiums at UTokyo. TSMC’s N16 FinFET Academic Design Foster Package, first adopted by UTokyo in 2023, is a core component of this collaboration, enhancing process design education and hands-on research for engineering students.
• TSMC-UTokyo Lab opens at UTokyo’s Asano campus for joint semiconductor R&D
• Lab to focus on materials, metrology, packaging, and circuit design research
• Supports talent incubation via TSMC’s FinFET Academic Design Foster Package
• Builds on 21 research projects since 2019 and new strategic agreement signed in 2025
• Complements TSMC’s broader R&D and manufacturing investments in Japan
“Through our collaboration with TSMC, we aim to pursue broad social implementation and actively engage with the historic challenges that humanity shares,” said Teruo Fujii, President of the University of Tokyo.
