TAIPEI -- After more than a decade in the business, Hu, a representative of a distributor selling foreign-made silicon wafers in China, says he has been shaken by a recent trend: the rapid rise over the past two years of Chinese manufacturers offering the products at just half the price of leading Japanese rivals.
China's silicon wafer makers are starting to unsettle entrenched global players. (Illustration by Hiroko Aida)
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