China’s top memory chipmaker unable to wean off USBloombergChina’s top flash memory chipmaker sees no easy way to replace US chipmaking gear, underscoring how a further crackdown on the supply of US technology would devastate the local semiconductor industry. Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (長江存儲) gets more than 80 percent of its equipment from the US and Japan, said Zheng Jiuli (鄭久利), vice president in charge of supply chain management. “Long-term investments in innovation and R&D [research and development] have led to technological advantages” at US and Japanese suppliers, Zheng said. “This is also the reason why their products are currently in the mainstream and are difficult to replace,” Zheng added. Yangtze Memory has not set a target for domestic procurement, Zheng said, adding that it would be “unscientific” to do so.

Source: Taipei Times September 10, 2020 15:56 UTC