China Advances Domestic Semiconductor Self-Sufficiency Goals
Since launching Made in China 2025 in 2013, Beijing has invested tens to hundreds of billions in the Big Fund and related projects; NYT estimates $150 billion, UBS forecasts $280 billion in wafer-fab equipment 2022–2028. Those investments produced competitive chip design firms (Alibaba, Huawei, Biren, Cambricon), dozens of mature-node fabs, and memory players YMTC and CXMT, but China still lacks leading-edge process technologies.
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- Read OriginalThe state of China's decade-long semiconductor push: still a decade behind, despite hundreds of billions spent and significant progress — examining the original 'Made in China 2025' initiativetomshardware.com
