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Despite spending billions on its domestic industry, China remains reliant on foreign chipmakers.
China will spend over $300 billion on importing semiconductors this year, an industry expert told the World Semiconductor Conference in Nanjing on Wednesday, as the U.S. continues to put pressure on the country’s access to the most advanced chips.
“China is the world’s largest importer of chips,” Wei Shaojun, vice chairman of the China Semiconductor Industry Association, said on Wednesday. China imported $301 billion worth of semiconductors last year—more than the $238 billion it spent on crude oil.
https://fortune.com/2020/08/27/china-semiconductor-chip-imports-us-ban-huawei/
China will spend over $300B in 2020 on imported chips. China is nowhere close to breaking its dependence on foreign semiconductor technology. By the time China can mass produce a 7nm process, its competitors will have moved on.
Not to mention nearly all of China’s supercomputers are running on American technology.
Last year China import chip $301, this year $300.
So in what way China is more reliant on import chip in this 2020?