chip shortage china

[ad_1] Stepping up a feud with Washington over technology and security, China's government on Sunday told users of computer equipment deemed sensitive to stop buying products from the biggest U.S. memory chipmaker, Micron Technology Inc.Micron products have unspecified “serious network security risks” that pose hazards to China's information infrastructure and affect national security, the Cyberspace Administration of China said on its website. Its six-sentence statement gave no details. “Operators of critical information infrastructure in China should stop purchasing products from Micron Co.,” the agency said. The United States, Europe and Japan are reducing Chinese access to advanced chipmaking and other technology they say might be used in weapons at a time when President Xi Jinping'...

[ad_1] A massive shortage of semiconductors over the past two years wreaked havoc in many sectors. There weren't enough machines to make the chips, either. To fix the problem, firms announced billions of dollars of capital spending for new facilities. But before these have even come online, there's already a glut.Companies don't seem too perturbed, though, nor do investors. Some chip machinery maker stocks(1)are trading at heady valuations. They are finding comfort in the backlog of orders that will tide these firms through the troughs. Those that aren't sitting on cushy buffers will wait it out as they've done in years past. SEMI, the industry association, projects a 17% drop in front-end process equipment. For others that cut wafers into chips, or the back-end process, sales are likel...

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China tells tech manufacturers to stop using Micron chips, stepping up feud with United States

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