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South Korea urged to guard chip profitability as China’s CXMT and YMTC gain market share

10.26

China’s expanding semiconductor industry is fuelling anxiety in South Korea, where a new report from PwC has warned local chipmakers to defend profitability as Chinese rivals scale up production and…

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