FILE PHOTO: A smartphone with a displayed ASML logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
TOKYO (Reuters) - Semiconductor equipment maker ASML plans to set up a base in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido to support production at a new Rapidus chip plant, the Nikkei daily said on Tuesday.
ASML will open a technical support centre in Chitose, Hokkaido in the second half of 2024, Nikkei said.
(Reporting by Rocky Swift, Editing by Louise Heavens)