China's top chipmaker pivots to domestic sales, struggles to satisfy demand

Despite record breaking growth and a shift towards supplying chips domestically, execs at China's top chipmaker – Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) – believe its production capacity can meet less than ten per cent of domestic semiconductor demand in the Middle Kingdom. The company last Friday …

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Is it me?

Is it me or are we being “updated on China” more than on our own country?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Is it me?

What exactly is there to update about silicon manufacturing in the uk, Hmm?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Is it me?

Well, ElReg did report on Newport Wafer Fab being bought for about £63m by a Chinese company.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/17/newport_wafer_fab_sold_to_wingtech/

[cyberdemon]

Re: Is it me?

Because this is a tech news site. Guess where 90% of the UK's Tech comes from.

(ok, fine, it's not 90%. We do get some tech from Europe too...)

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Is it me?

In UK news the govt minister for celebrating a bright new dawn of Global Britain has announced that although there is no modern fab capacity in operation or planned if there were then the British chips would be as happy as the British fish.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Is it me?

Newly emancipated sovereign British fish are the happiest fish. FACT!

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Is it me?

In anticipation of demand for British Silicon, Brighton beach is sold to a chum of Boris

[Zolko]

Re: Is it me?

May-be we're getting more news about China because they actually do more ? The times when China was a cheap labor manufacturer are loooong gone: now they build bases on the Moon. When was the last time that UK – or any European country – did send something to the Moon surface ?

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Is it me?

Back when we had Nazi scientists, racial discrimination, a crook in the Whitehouse, an anti-science administration in Houston and Florida

We're trying .....