Shares of China's domestic legacy chipmakers, including SG Micro and 3Peak, surged on Monday after Beijing's weekend announcement of an anti-dumping investigation into imported US semiconductors. The government's probe into imported "analogue integrated-circuit (IC) chips" - widely used in home appliances, machinery and electric vehicles - marked the first-ever anti-dumping probe into imported IC products as the country makes steady progress in developing domestic alternatives for these products. Leading ...

China's legacy chip companies are set to gain from the latest escalation in the US-China tech war, as Beijing's latest anti-dumping investigation targets analogue chipmakers from the US. The Ministry of Commerce said on Saturday the import volume of US mature mode integrated circuit (IC) chips subject to the investigation increased 37 per cent from 2022 to 2024, but the import price decreased 52 per cent in the same period, which had "lowered and suppressed the sales prices of domestic products". The inv ...