Tech war: China’s semiconductor heartland woos foreign investors as US pushes for supply chain decoupling
- Jiangsu province is set to host an online seminar to entice foreign semiconductor firms to partner up with local counterparts
- The region is home to factories of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and SK Hynix, whose expansion plan in Wuxi fell through
China’s coastal Jiangsu province, a key chip manufacturing hub, will host a special online event to encourage foreign semiconductor design firms to partner with local peers, as the country moves to strengthen its industrial ties with the outside world amid US efforts to reduce China’s role in the global chip supply chain.
The online seminar, scheduled for next month, is designed to promote international cooperation between local semiconductor firms and their Asian, European and US counterparts, according to a notice published by the Wuxi Semiconductor Industry Association.
The event will facilitate collaboration in chip design, packaging testing, manufacturing and applications. Tens of thousands of semiconductor companies will join the event, which is open to new companies, according to the notice. It did not say how many foreign firms would attend.
The cities of Nanjing, Wuxi and Suzhou, all located in Jiangsu, are home to assemblers of Chinese chip giants. The mainland factory of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s most advanced fab, is located in Nanjing, while a memory chip plant of South Korean chip maker SK Hynix is based in Wuxi.
