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China declares it is now the leading global chipmaking power — mainly because it just changed the definitio…

2 weeks ago07 mins

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. China’s State Council published a revised integrated-circuit layout-design regulation, deleting the words “semiconductor integrated circuit” from its definitions article, essentially rewriting what it considers an integrated circuit The regulation does retain mentions of “semiconductor material substrate”, but chooses…

Mainland memory firms eye Hong Kong for funds to fuel ‘global ambitions’

7 months ago03 mins

A number of mainland-based suppliers of memory chips and storage solutions are pursuing share listings in Hong Kong, signalling a strategic change in how the sector aims to fuel its global ambitions, according to analysts. The most watched firm is Shanghai-based Montage Technology, a designer of high-speed interconnect chips for data centres, which is taking…

China bets on bio-manufacturing as new growth engine, bid for tech self-reliance

9 months ago02 mins

China is betting on bio-manufacturing to boost technological self-reliance and drive economic growth as part of the next five-year plan, elevating the sector on par with electric vehicles and semiconductors. Beijing is upgrading and expanding a nationwide bio-ecosystem, with 43 companies and research institutes selected in the first batch of pilot-scale manufacturing platforms for products…

US-China tech war: Nexperia saga exposes Europe’s loosening grip on chip supply chain

Cs news9 months ago03 mins

The Nexperia factory in Dongguan, in the heart of southern China’s Pearl River Delta, has long been a poster child for successful globalisation. Since its launch in 2000, the plant, which covers an area the size of 10 football fields, has operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week, non-stop. Following its most recent…

Explainer | US-China trade agreement: what did both sides commit to do?

Cs news10 months ago10 months ago02 mins

With the United States and China striking what the White House has called a “historic” agreement, trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies – after months of simmering – appear to be entering a phase of de-escalation. Here, the Post explores what the fact sheet has revealed about the commitments made by the US…

Tech war: workers at Nexperia’s China plant fear being caught in dispute crossfire

Cs news10 months ago02 mins

Workers at a large Nexperia packaging plant in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan said they are worried about becoming collateral damage in a simmering political dispute between the Netherlands and China that has upended the management of the Dutch semiconductor maker. During a visit by the Post on Thursday, operations at the factory appeared…

Chinese chip equipment supplier SiCarrier’s unit launches EDA software

Cs news10 months ago01 mins

Qiyunfang, the SiCarrier unit, on Wednesday launched two EDA products – one for schematic capture and another for printed circuit board (PCB) design – at the three-day WeSemiBay Semiconductor Ecosystem Expo 2025 in Shenzhen that concludes on Friday. The development of new domestic EDA products reflected the Chinese semiconductor industry’s efforts to enhance self-sufficiency in…

China charts path to global competitiveness in chips and AI for next five-year plan

Cs news11 months ago02 mins

As China drafts its 15th five-year plan – the next entry in a line of expansive blueprints that have set the tone for the country’s development over more than seven decades – we explore what China will do in the field of science and technology, particularly regarding the introduction of scientific talent. For more stories…

Tech war: Huawei’s AI chip road map bolsters China’s tech self-sufficiency efforts

Cs news11 months ago02 mins

US-sanctioned Huawei’s disclosure “is educating the market about what’s ahead”, while signalling that the Shenzhen-based company “can match Nvidia’s multi-year road map”, said Kevin Xu, founder of US-based investment firm Interconnected Capital. Huawei deputy chairman Eric Xu Zhijun, who serves as the privately held company’s rotating chairman from April to September, unveiled the plans to…

China tells its tech companies they can’t buy AI chips from Nivida

Cs news11 months ago04 mins

Nvidia just got shut out of the Chinese market — this time by the Chinese government instead of the US. China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, banned domestic tech companies from buying Nvidia AI chips on Wednesday, as first reported by the Financial Times. The agency also told tech companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to stop testing and…