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Nikkei Asia
15-07-2025
- Business
- Nikkei Asia
The final chip challenge: Can China build its own ASML?
CHENG TING-FANG, LAULY LI and SHUNSUKE TABETA In southeastern Beijing, engineers at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China's top chipmaker, are working around the clock to expand the output of 14-nanometer and even 7-nm chips, just a few generations behind the world's leading chipmakers. Being able to make such advanced chips at all is a major breakthrough for a company that has been laboring under a U.S. blacklisting for five years. But SMIC's mission goes beyond just making the chips. It wants to produce them entirely with Chinese equipment.
Nikkei Asia
14-05-2025
- Business
- Nikkei Asia
Japan, Netherlands win as China's chip tool imports surge on US tensions
CHENG TING-FANG, LAULY LI and KIM JAEWON TAIPEI/SEOUL -- China bought a record amount of foreign chipmaking equipment in 2024 as part of efforts to massively expand domestic chip production as well as build up stockpiles of key tools amid rising tensions with the U.S. Of the $30.9 billion imported from major sources, nearly $20 billion came from Japan and the Netherlands, Nikkei Asia found, with smaller sources like Malaysia and Singapore also rising sharply.
