A former semiconductor plant in Yamanashi, Japan's main wine-producing region, has made a fresh start as a winery, with the company's owner driven to explore a new industry by fierce competition from Asian tech rivals.The MGVs winery, which opened in April last year, uses liquefied nitrogen gas that once protected silicon wafer from oxygen and moisture to prevent grape juice from deteriorating through oxidization, to some extent keeping alive one of the factory's former functions.The winery's clean room, an area free of dust and other contaminants, is used for wine fermentation, bottling an…READ FULL ARTICLE