China’s most senior semiconductor executives issued a public call this week for a consolidated national effort to build a domestic alternative to Dutch lithography giant ASML, warning that the country’s chip equipment industry remains too “small, fragmented, and weak” to overcome U.S. export restrictions on its own.
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In remarks co-authored by SMIC co-founder Wang Yangyuan alongside leaders of memory giant YMTC, chip equipment maker Naura, and…

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