{
  "id": 19010,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3363797/fund-backed-china-memory-giant-ymtc-invests-push-alternative-chipmaking-route",
  "title": "Fund backed by China memory giant YMTC invests in push for alternative chipmaking route",
  "summary": "A venture capital fund backed by Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC), China’s top producer of NAND flash memory, has taken a stake in domestic semiconductor manufacturer SOI Micro, adding a high-profile investor to the country’s push for an alternative chipmaking ecosystem. Led by a prominent figure in China’s semiconductor industry, SOI Micro is focused on developing fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology – a low-power chipmaking technology that offers a complementary route",
  "authors": "Howard Liu",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T13:00:07.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19010",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3363797/fund-backed-china-memory-giant-ymtc-invests-push-alternative-chipmaking-route",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}