Creating an Advanced System
LSI Technology Development
Hub to Lead the World
The Fukuoka-Kitakyushu-Iizuka region has witnessed an amassing of intellectual resources from universities and research institutes as well as from semiconductor-related companies and the auto industry in northern Kyushu.
Our aim is to take advantage of this momentum and maximize the area’s potential to build and accelerate the progress of the Silicon Sea Belt Fukuoka Project. Through this project, we will create a hub for world-class advanced system LSI technology development. This hub will assume a key role in the Silicon Sea Belt that has grown to become the world’s largest manufacturer and consumer of semiconductors.
We have set a goal “to cluster 300 companies in the field of system LSI technology development in five years,” and we are prepared to promote three strategic pillars in our work: (1) promotion of strategic R&D, (2) further emphasis on human resources development, and (3) further internationalization.
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Five-year objective |
To cluster 300 system LSI development-related companies
(from 110 companies in 2007 to 300 companies in March 2012) |
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Strategic pillars |
①【Promotion of strategic R&D】To carry out industry-academia-government R&D projects covering 100
themes each year
②【Further emphasis on human resources development】To train 1,000 engineers related to system LSI each year
③【Further internationalization】To conduct 20 joint R&D projects with overseas organizations in the 5 year
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Silicon Sea Belt (SSB) Fukuoka Project
Potential of Fukuoka Prefecture (Kyushu)
Outline of the Second Stage of the Project: 2007 to 2011
Base project (1) Promotion of strategic R&D
Base project (2) Further emphasis on human resources development
Expansion Program Further Internationalization
