“Self-reliance is the foundation for the Chinese nation,” President Xi Jinping (習近平) said in a speech released in March. A woman browses her smartphone at a booth displaying various chips developed by Beijing’s Tsing Micro during September’s China Beijing International High-Tech Expo. Photo: APWashington and Beijing need to “avoid that the world becomes separated,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in September. Visitors to a mall walk past a Huawei store in Beijing, China. “My country still faces a big gap in chip technology,” said industry analyst Liu Chuntian of Zero Power Intelligence Group.

Source: Taipei Times December 28, 2021 22:01 UTC