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country imported 47.6 billion chip units during the month,
compared with 54.3 billion units in September 2021, according to
the data, which had been due for release earlier this month but
was delayed due to the Communist Party Congress.
That maintains an ongoing downward trend for chip imports.
In the first nine months of 2021, China imported 417.1 billion
units of chips, down 12.8 percent year-on-year.
Chip imports to China surged in 2021, as tensions between the
U.S. and China over technology policy escalated and a global
chip shortage caused many companies in China to stockpile
supplies.
Separate data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that
domestic chip output in September fell 16.4% year-on-year to
26.1 billion units. In the first nine months of 2022, total
output fell 10.8% to 245 billion units.
Achieving self sufficiency for China's chip industry remains a
key policy priority for Beijing, especially as Washington
continues to target the progress of China's semiconductor
sector, with the latest being a set of sanctions announced by
the Biden administration earlier this month.
The sanctions have caused major overseas-based chip
manufacturing equipment companies to cease supplying key Chinese
chip companies, including Yangtze memory Technologies Co (YMTC)
and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), and
makers of advanced artificial intelligence chips to cease
supplying companies and laboratories.
(Reporting by Josh Horwitz; Editing by Mike Harrison)
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