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Chinese merchant AI accelerator designer, named a primary beneficiary despite shipping only about 116,000 units in 2025.
Export controls walled off China's AI demand from TSMC and Samsung. SMIC, the only domestic route to 7nm-class logic, is now repricing the captive pool it inherited.
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Ajinomoto has reportedly told mainland customers it will cut supply of high-end packaging film by 30 percent. It holds about 95 percent of that market; China supplies under 5 percent of its own.
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China's Ministry of State Security told state-linked entities to uninstall a customised Windows 10 ahead of schedule, Bloomberg reported. Microsoft says it is aware of no security incident.
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TrendForce now expects domestic silicon to take about 90% of China's AI accelerator market in 2026, up from 45%. The arithmetic says the constraint is fab and packaging output, not Washington.
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