China is considering an additional $70 billion in investment for its domestic chip industry, as reported by data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-12/china-prepares-as-much-as-70-billion-in-chip-sector-incentives” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-12/china-prepares-as-much-as-70-billion-in-chip-sector-incentives” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Bloomberg. This would be on top of existing government investment initiatives like the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-starts-big-fund-iii-spending-usd47-billion-for-ecosystem-and-fab-tools” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-starts-big-fund-iii-spending-usd47-billion-for-ecosystem-and-fab-tools”>Big Fund III from earlier this year, and could accelerate chip fabrication design and development to help it compete with the likes of Nvidia, even as the Trump administrative data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-reportedly-wins-h200-exports-to-china-us-department-of-commerce-set-to-ease-restrictions-for-full-hopper-ai-gpu” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-reportedly-wins-h200-exports-to-china-us-department-of-commerce-set-to-ease-restrictions-for-full-hopper-ai-gpu”>re-approves sale of H200 GPUs in the region.
Over the past year, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-seeks-semiconductor-and-ai-self-reliance-in-ambitious-new-5-year-plan-beijing-also-wants-to-increase-domestic-spending-and-reduce-reliance-on-exports” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-seeks-semiconductor-and-ai-self-reliance-in-ambitious-new-5-year-plan-beijing-also-wants-to-increase-domestic-spending-and-reduce-reliance-on-exports”>China has announced a number of major projects and initiatives in an…
