Rorze, a maker of wafer-handling robots, bought new shares in Nanoverse Technologies, a 2022 startup in Oregon developing laser and measurement machines for advanced chip packaging, for about ¥11.1 billion. The stake is 33%, but Rorze consolidates Nanoverse as a subsidiary because it controls it in practice. Nanoverse was about to ship its first test machines to chipmakers. About Nanoverse Nanoverse is based in Beaverton, Oregon, and is led by chief executive Jeff Albelo. Before Rorze's money it had sales of only about ¥52 million and an operating loss of about ¥1.99 billion. In March 2026 it launched its first advanced packaging tools, including the NVT 7700, which combines laser scribing with real-time measurement. Rorze's bet Rorze, based in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, makes the robots that move wafers between chipmaking machines. Nanoverse gives it a way into the process tools themselves, in a part of the industry that is growing with AI chips.
