TOKYO, Sept 17 (Reuters) – Japan and the United States are in talks to build a semiconductor factory as part of their $550 billion investment agreement, the Nikkei business daily reported on Thursday.
The project is expected to be worth 2 trillion yen to 3 trillion yen ($12.85 billion to $19.27 billion) and would be operated by chipmaker GlobalFoundries, focusing on logic semiconductors, the Nikkei reported without citing sources.
($1 = 155.6600 yen)
(Reporting by Mariko Katsumura and Satoshi Sugiyama; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
