China's advanced-chip gap could close well before its lithography gap does

DIGITIMESAugust 26, 2026en

As China enters a near-frenzied state of continuous production-capacity expansion, it is easy to see that the main driver behind these aggressive, purpose-built movements in the domestic chip-manufacturing space is rooted in a national need to maintain sovereign control over critical process nodes, where access to the surrounding supply chain has proved increasingly constrained.

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