半導体生産支援で法整備　工場建設に補助金―政府方針

　世界的に需給が逼迫（ひっぱく）している半導体の生産強化に向け、政府が国内工場の建設などを補助金で支援する法整備を検討していることが８日、分かった。年内にも開かれる臨時国会に、高速大容量規格「５Ｇ」開発を後押しする法律の改正案提出を目指す。半導体受託製造最大手の台湾積体電路製造（ＴＳＭＣ）が熊本県内に建設を予定する新工場への数千億円規模の支援が第１号となる見通し。
　新エネルギー・産業技術総合開発機構（ＮＥＤＯ）に基金を設け、新工場建設などを補助する方向。２０２１年度補正予算案に事業費を盛り込む方針だ。支援を受ける企業は事業の計画書を提出し、経済産業相の認定を受ける必要がある。（2021/11/08-12:44）

The Japanese government is considering subsidizing costs to construct semiconductor plants in Japan to help boost chip production amid global shortages, informed sources said Monday.
   The government aims to submit legislation aimed at revising a law on the development of 5G large-capacity ultrafast mobile networks to an extraordinary session of parliament expected to be convened by the end of this year at the earliest, according to the sources.
   The first recipient of the envisaged subsidies is expected to be Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's leading contract chipmaker, which is expected to build a plant in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, the sources said.
   TSMC is likely to receive several hundred billion yen.
   The government will create a fund at the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, or NEDO, for the subsidies, planning to earmark necessary costs in a fiscal 2021 draft supplementary budget, according to the sources.