Chinese chipmaker to triple output as decoupling accelerates

Wuhan-based Yangtze Memory at heart of 'Made in China 2025'

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A researcher plants a semiconductor on an interface board under a microscope at Tsinghua Unigroup research center in Beijing. China is keen to curb its dependence on American semiconductors. © Reuters

SHUNSUKE TABETA, Nikkei staff writer

BEIJING -- Yangtze Memory Technologies has broken ground on a new factory toward tripling its output capacity to 300,000 wafer equivalents a month, as part of China's push to curb its dependence on American semiconductors.

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