China’s integrated circuit (IC) output increased 8.7 per cent year on year to 37.6 billion units in November, as growth slows amid an intensifying US-China tech war and escalating chip restrictions. Growth of IC output – a broad measure of semiconductor production – has fallen to single digits for the first time this year, according … Read more
Delegates at a Chinese semiconductor conference in Shanghai have called for “global cooperation”, sending a conciliatory message at a time when Washington and Beijing are intensifying a chip war. At the Global Semiconductor Market Summit on Thursday, one of China’s first major chip industry gatherings since the Biden administration imposed new export restrictions, speakers largely … Read more
The four bodies – the Internet Society of China, the Chinese Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the China Semiconductor Industry Association and the China Association of Communication Enterprises – on Tuesday issued statements within minutes of each other, urging their members to be “cautious” about buying chips from American suppliers, following the Biden administration’s fresh sanctions. … Read more
A leading Chinese chip design software start-up is slashing as much as half of its workforce, casting a shadow over Beijing’s efforts to achieve tech self-sufficiency, according to three people familiar with the matter. X-Epic, established in 2020 with a mission to develop indigenous electronic design automation (EDA) tools to break the monopoly of US … Read more
