A balanced assessment of Chinese semiconductor progress: real gains, persistent gaps, and how to read competing claims.
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Chinese Semiconductors
Expert guides, analysis and tool comparisons on Chinese Semiconductors from the kurums.com Startup desk — written for business decision-makers and updated as the market moves.
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- Updated Jul 19, 2026
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Memory Chips: YMTC, CXMT and China’s Storage Ambitions
How YMTC and CXMT built genuine memory-chip capability, and how export controls interrupted their rise.
Mature Nodes: China’s Quiet Semiconductor Advantage
Most chips are not cutting-edge. Here is how China built commanding mature-node capacity — and why the West now worries.
The Big Fund: How China Finances Its Chip Ambitions
How China’s state semiconductor fund channels hundreds of billions into chips — and what it has actually achieved.
China’s AI Chips: Building Alternatives to Nvidia
How Chinese firms are building AI accelerators to substitute for restricted Nvidia hardware — and how far they have got.
The Equipment Bottleneck: China’s Lithography Challenge
Why lithography machines are the single hardest bottleneck in chipmaking, and how China is trying to build its own.
HiSilicon: Huawei’s Chip Design Arm and Its Comeback
How Huawei’s in-house chip designer reached the frontier, was cut off by sanctions, and staged an unexpected return.
SMIC: China’s Chipmaking Champion Under Sanctions
How SMIC became China’s largest chip foundry, why sanctions targeted it, and how it advanced anyway.