Prime Minister Takaichi’s commitment to accelerating the reactivation of Japan’s nuclear fleet, reinforced by Sunday’s supermajority, is typically framed as energy security policy. There is a technology dimension that deserves equal weight: Japan’s ability to attract AI data center investment depends on providing reliable, low-carbon baseload power at competitive prices. Nuclear energy is the only…
Compute Express Link, the open interconnect standard enabling processors to share memory across a high-speed fabric, is moving from specification to silicon. CXL version 3.1, ratified in late 2025, adds memory pooling, switching, and multi-host access that enable a fundamentally new approach to how AI workloads consume memory. Instead of each server containing fixed local…
Japan has long been an anomaly among developed economies in its reliance on cash transactions. As recently as 2019, cash accounted for approximately 80% of consumer payments, a figure that placed Japan behind not only its regional peers in South Korea (approximately 30% cash) and China (less than 20%) but behind many developing economies that…
