China hoards used chipmaking machines to resist US pressure

Machines 'worthless several years ago' sell for $1 million

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People cooped at home playing computer games have driven up demand for semiconductors.  © Reuters

YOICHIRO HIROI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Chinese semiconductor makers are snapping up used chipmaking machines as they rush to produce homegrown products amid U.S.-Sino trade tensions, driving up equipment prices in Japan's secondary market.

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