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China's CXMT aims to build country's first advanced memory chips for AI

Move intended to cut dependence on foreign suppliers SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron

Chinese chipmaker CXMT is gearing up to produce high-bandwidth memory used in AI applications. (Source image from CXMT website)

TAIPEI -- ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is racing to produce China's first domestic high bandwidth memory, a critical component in artificial intelligence computing, as the country battles U.S. export controls and looks to reduce its reliance on foreign suppliers.

CXMT has already ordered and received some manufacturing and test equipment from U.S. and Japanese suppliers that is suitable for assembling and producing HBM, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

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