{
  "id": 16862700,
  "title": "China’s CXMT to start advanced AI memory production despite poor yields, sources say",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/chinas-cxmt-to-start-advanced-ai-memory-production-despite-poor",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-28T06:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Japan Times",
    "slug": "japan-times",
    "url": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/10/28/china-cxmt-ai-memory-production/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "China's CXMT, the country's largest maker of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), intends to commence the production of HBM3E, a high-bandwidth memory chip critical for AI processors, despite a production rate of only around 20%, according to sources familiar with the matter. This move underscores the acute shortage of AI memory chips in China, a situation necessitated by the government's drive to cultivate indigenous alternatives to Nvidia's AI processors due to U.S. restrictions on acquiring foreign-made technology. CXMT, which has already provided HBM3E samples to several domestic AI chip designers, anticipates initiating limited production within the next two months, as one source informed.",
  "summary": "The decision highlights China's intense shortage of the AI memory chips, essential to a push to develop domestic alternatives to Nvidia.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}