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China's foundry sector is charting a different course as the global semiconductor market remains focused on AI GPUs, the 2nm process node, and advanced packaging. Led by Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and Hua Hong Semiconductor, domestic Chinese foundries have not stalled under US sanctions; instead, they are accelerating efforts to build a China-specific foundry ecosystem amid t

While the global semiconductor industry remains fixated on 3nm, 2nm, and the AI GPU arms race, SMIC founder and "China's semiconductor godfather" Zhang Rujing is pushing a sharply different message: the future of China's chip industry may depend less on chasing the world's most advanced nodes and more on dominating the vast market still built on mature processes.

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A network to smuggle restricted Nvidia AI hardware has been found: it shipped to Alibaba, among other destinations.

Copy linkFacebookXWhatsappRedditPinterestFlipboardEmailShare this article0Join the conversationFollow usAdd us as a preferred source on GoogleNewsletterSubscribe to our newsletterABloomberginvestigation on Friday shed some additional light on theindictment of Supermicro executives and employeestied to a $2.5 billion smuggling of restricted hardware to China. As it appears, the group allegedly used

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang reiterates that American companies should be able to ship their products globally, but maintains that the latest AI accelerators should remain in America.