China’s Struggle to Make Advanced Chips Dramatized in New Series

  • ‘My Chinese Chip’ shows chase for semiconductor tech lead
  • China is barred from buying advanced foreign chipmaking gear
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A new series in China tells the story of a scrappy startup developing the advanced chipmaking technology that multinational trade sanctions today are keeping out of the country.

Airing on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Netflix-like Youku from Monday, My Chinese Chip hits on a priority issue for the Beijing government — semiconductor leadership and self-sufficiency — and depicts a state-supported firm successfully building lasers for deep ultraviolet lithography machines.